Thesis (M.M. (Public and Development Management))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2014. / Asymmetric information, agency problems and the moral hazard, in their various manifestations, can be attributed to the collapse of financial systems over the last century. In order to guard against the negative externalities of these dilemmas, regulators in the banking sector have developed capital adequacy requirements, which measure the solvency of Banks. After the global financial crisis, regulators have realised the importance of having appropriate bank resolution regimes, in order to dismantle failing or failed banks before they become a risk to the financial system and economy. This report s analyses how the South African Reserve Bank resolves systematically significant banks.

This thesis aims to analyze and evaluate changes in bank regulation prepared in the European Union. It focuses primarily on the imperfections of the existing regulatory system, which occurred in relation to the financial crisis, and on efforts of EU leaders to eliminate such imperfections. The first section defines the general reasons for bank regulation and supervision, describes the specifics of the banking sector and summarizes the pre-crisis situation in the EU. The second part analyzes the most important reasons for the financial crisis and the causes of its rapid expansion from U.S. to European markets. The third block deals with the final response in the form proposed by the EU and the concrete measures taken with regard to banking regulation and supervision on the territory of all EU Member States.