All Regulations
Banking, Investments & Wealth Management are highly regulated activities. As financial activities involves money and trust, are sensitive and critical to the proper functioning of the global financial system, and is the most susceptible to criminals and misuse, regulations had been necessary to reduce these risks and improve stability.
Since the early 1900s, international bodies such as Bank of International Settlements (1930), Bretton Woods Agreement (1944) and International Monetary Fund (1945) had been created to promote global cooperation in areas of banking, economic, monetary policies.
On the domestic or national level, governing bodies are usually the Central Bank, Central Treasury or Ministry of Finance.