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Deregulation and Change in the 1980s

In: A Guide to Financial Institutions

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  • Charles R. Geisst

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The 1980s was the most tumultuous decade for financial institutions since the Depression years. Many institutions which for years had been restrained by regulations found themselves free of their shackles, on the one hand, while being restrained by different sorts of shackles, on the other. While the structure of many traditional financial institutions remained relatively stable, their functions changed substantially. As has been seen in the previous chapters, commercial banks encroached upon the domains of building associations and some building associations returned the compliment. Investment banks leaned increasingly toward merchant banking functions while commercial banks enviously eyed security market activities as natural extensions of their own activities. New American federal agencies were created along traditional lines and pension funds and insurance companies began to stray farther afield in search of high returns and new customers.

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  • Charles R. Geisst, 1993. "Deregulation and Change in the 1980s," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: A Guide to Financial Institutions, edition 0, chapter 7, pages 127-147, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37907-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230379077_8
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