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1913 US National Reserve Act creates the [[Federal Reserve System]] | 1913 US National Reserve Act creates the [[Federal Reserve System]] | ||
1930-33 [[Great Depression in the United States#Banking Crises (1930 - 33)| The Banking crises of the Great Depression]] | |||
1933 US The Glass-Steagall Act [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html] | 1933 US The Glass-Steagall Act [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html] | ||
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1244 Genoa's Leccacorvo bank[1]
1609 Amsterdam Wisselbank founded[2] - the first central bank.
1694 Formation of the Bank of England[3]
1863 US National Bank Act sets minimum reserve ratios
1913 US National Reserve Act creates the Federal Reserve System
1930-33 The Banking crises of the Great Depression
1933 US The Glass-Steagall Act [4]
1980 US Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act[5]
1986 UK Building Societies Act[6]
1988 Basel I[7] (The Basel Capital Accord)
1989 US Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act[8]
1999 US Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act[9] - repealed the Glass Steagall Act of 1933, and introduced other changes including expanding the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
2002 US Sarbanes-Oxley Act[10][11]
2006 Basel II[12] (Revised International Capital Framework)
2009 UK Banking Act 2009[13] (including the Special Resolution Regime[[14]