"Making Banks Better": Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office

23.04.2018

Ten years after the last financial crisis, large banks are still creating risky financial instruments faster than policymakers can regulate them. Bank workers around the world are under pressure to sell these products.

Authors: Stephen Lerner, Rita Berlofa, Molly McGrath

Debates abound over regulatory oversight of large banks and the best methods of safeguarding consumers and economies. Yet little attention is paid to the role the nearly eight million commercial bank employees in the global banking sector can play. Instead of relying on legal and supervisory systems to take on the entire task of financial regulation “from above”, this paper, co-sponsored by UNI-Finance, AFL-CIO and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, argues that employees of banks and financial institutions may be able to collectively assist regulatory efforts “from below” and, in doing so, build safeguards for their own jobs against the incentivization of excessive or fraudulent sales.

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