Deposit Insurance: Overview of Six Foreign Systems

NSIAD-91-104 Published: Feb 22, 1991. Publicly Released: Feb 22, 1991.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on deposit insurance and protection systems in Germany, France, the United Kingdom (UK), Italy, Japan, and Canada, focusing on the: (1) countries' overall financial regulation systems; (2) countries' resolution of bank failures; and (3) European Community's (EC) efforts to encourage establishing EC-wide deposit protection.

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Economic Development

Bank depositsBank failuresBank managementBanking regulationCapitalFinancial institutionsForeign governmentsInsured commercial banksInternational agreementsInternational economic relations