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A timeline (or several) relating to Financial system.

1200 to 1933: financial turmoil

  • 1244 Genoa's Leccacorvo bank[1]
  • 1609 Amsterdam Wisselbank founded[2] - the first central bank.
  • 1637 Dutch tulip bubble[3]
  • 1694 Formation of the Bank of England[4]
  • 1720 South Sea Bubble[6]
  • 1864 US National Bank Act - established a national banking system and the chartering of national banks.
  • 1837 US banking crisis
  • 1844 UK Bank Charter Act
  • 1866 Overend and Gurney bank rescued[[7]
  • 1890 Barings bank rescued
  • 1913 US Federal Reserve Act - established the Federal Reserve System [8]

1933 to 1980: financial stability

  • 1933 New Deal
    US Glass-Steagall Act - created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation[9]. Separated commercial banking from investment banking.[[10]
  • 1933 United States leaves the gold standard.
  • 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement[11] US dollar convertible to gold at 35$/oz and other currencies fixed to dollar. International Monetary Fund created.
  • 1971 The US dollar no longer convertible to gold[12]. Most exchange rates allowed to float.
  • 1974 The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision[13] created.

1980 to 2007: deregulation, innovation and growth

  • 1980 US Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act[14]
  • 1986 US Savings and Loans crisis[[1]]
  • 1986 UK Building Societies Act [15][16]
    and stock exchange "Big Bang"[17].
  • 1987 Global stock market crash[18]
  • 1987 First CDOs issued [19]
  • 1988 Basel I[20] (The Basel Capital Accord)
  • 1989 LTCM hedge fund rescued[21]
  • 1997 First Credit Default Swap (CDS) issued[22]
  • 1999 US Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act - repealed the Glass Steagall Act of 1933, and introduced other changes including expanding the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
  • 1999 The Financial Stability Forum[25] created
  • 1999 The European Monetary Union[26]
  • 2006 Basel II[27] (Revised International Capital Framework]

2007 to 2009: financial turmoil again