Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Conference of State Bank Supervisors
History of Bills (HOB)
1987 - GOV - History of S. 706 - A Bill To Amend The Bank Holding Act And The National Bank Act To Clarify Limitations On Insurance Activities Of Banks, to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. By Mr. HEINZ (for himself and Mr. Dodd) - govinfo.gov/content/pkg/HOB-1987/html/HOB-1987.htm
1990 - SOA - Banks: Successful Entry Into The Insurance Industry On A Worldwide Basis, Society of Actuaries - 20p
2006 - World Bank - Resolution of Failed Banks by Deposit Insurers: Cross-country Evidence (WPS3920), Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven - 34p
1988-1989 - LR - Bargaining for Justice: An Examination of the Use and Limits of Conditions by the Federal Reserve Board, Alfred C. Aman - 64p
Controversy over what is or should be the business of banking challenges the rationales for banking regulations.64
Changes in data processing and communications technology have created a new financial services industry.
"These new methods have revolutionized the business, and created new businesses and new products.
Money market funds, central asset accounts, and universal life policies would have been impossible before modern data processing and communication technologies. 65
These new services raise questions about just what "the business of banking" in fact is.