Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

This essay briefly reviews the ways stability has dominated regulatory and academic discourse about financial regulation. It then uses anti-money laundering (AML) and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHL Banks) — the oldest government foray into housing policy — as case studies to show that banks and the financial system are already deeply engaged in efforts to further other important government policies. These case studies affirm just how hard it can be to promote healthy public-private coordination, while also revealing why such arrangements have become so pervasive. More than anything, the aim here is to force acknowledgment of the myriad aims beyond stability that financial regulation already seeks to further, and to encourage more and broader engagement with these important areas of public policy.

Disciplines

Banking and Finance Law | Finance | Law

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