Russian Investment Regulation

Lessons of Bank Deposit Insurance Reform

Author(s): Steven Halliwell
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 99
Pages: 2-8
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2011

Russia's bank deposit insurance program demonstrates that, contrary to widespread belief, the federal government is capable of effective financial industry regulation. This mandatory program, instituted in 2004, may in its broad outline prefigure how investment industry regulation will unfold in Russia, possibly in the not-too-distant future.

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