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Twin Peaks Revisited - Centre for Competition Law and Policy

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Changing nature of products<br />

� New financial products that overlapped conventional<br />

deposit/insurance/securities boundaries<br />

� E.g. Credit Default Swaps – credit or insurance?<br />

� Especially problematic <strong>for</strong> consumer protection – who<br />

regulates which product?<br />

� But also a systemic dimension – OTC (over-thecounter)<br />

derivatives markets increased the<br />

interconnectedness of institutions, banks <strong>and</strong> nonbanks

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