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Twin Peaks Revisited - Centre for Competition Law and Policy

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The traditional structure<br />

� Institutional supervision or combination of<br />

institutional <strong>and</strong> functional<br />

� Institutional – <strong>for</strong> prudential soundness, e.g. separate<br />

regulations <strong>for</strong> banks, insurers, securities firms<br />

� Functional – by product type – <strong>for</strong> consumer<br />

protection purposes<br />

� E.g. UK system prior to 1997<br />

� Banking Act 1987<br />

� Financial Services Act 1986<br />

� Insurance Companies Act 1982

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