On 1 January depositor “bail-in” came into effect across the European Union. Just in time for a new, rapidly building global financial crisis, the EU’s bail-in regime empowers financial authorities to confiscate money from bonds and deposits in order to save collapsing banks.
Although the Paris terrorist attack overtook the planned agenda of the 14-15 November G20 Leaders’ Summit in Turkey, nevertheless that summit accepted the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) demand for a “bail-in” regime to prop up the 30 global too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks.
Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane this weekend, the banker in charge of the bail-in agenda has announced the finalised plan to prop up Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks, for agreement at the summit.
The interim report of David Murray’s Financial System Inquiry, released 15 July, pushes the case for supposedly solving the problem of too-big-to-fail (TBTF) by implementing “bail-in”—the system which includes confiscating customer deposits to prop up failing banks, Cyprus-style.
Joe Hockey’s denials about “bail-in” have again been officially contradicted, this time by his own Treasury department, in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI).
Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood yesterday lodged a formal submission to Joe Hockey’s Financial System Inquiry, which opened with the following statement: