Confidential Bank Supervision in America: Historical Tensions and Modern Pressures

U.S. bank supervision relies on secrecy rules designed for a world that no longer exists. Confidentiality norms established in the nineteenth century, when banks were small, local institutions with simple balance sheets and few public reporting requirements, now apply to large publicly traded bank conglomerates that operate across global markets and face layers of disclosure.

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