WHY NORWAY REINED IN THE BANKS
“What happened in January was a step back, I admit,’ said Leif Eide, who runs market operations at the Bank of Norway. “But even so we’re still controlling the banking system through market forces. If we’d returned to direct regulation that would have been two or three steps back.’
Since January 10, when the central bank sharply increased reserve requirements only a few months after it had freed interest rates for the first time, Norwegian bankers have been asking themselves whether the deregulation of the last three years has gone into reverse.
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