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Time to revisit bank regulation

Regulators are facing a host of challenges in the sector they need to get ahead of

We live in a much more volatile, febrile world than a decade ago

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Andreas Dombret is a former executive at Germany's central bank and a global senior adviser at Oliver Wyman

‘Never again’ was the mantra of policymakers and regulators after the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Forestalling the collapse of the global financial system involved pumping in huge sums of public money, not to mention the costs incurred by taxpayers as economies were plunged into recession.

The regulatory reforms...