Financial Markets need to be put in their place by more regulation and higher equity capital requirements

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance grade: 1 University of Leicester (School of Management) course: Modul International Finance & Globalisation language: English abstract: In this assignment the recent financial crisis of 2007/08 and the events that led up to it will be discussed the role of the financial markets in this the changes in the financial architecture since 1970 until the outbreak of the recent crisis and how the architecture might be adapted to prevent further crises.