Law
The banking sector is inarguably one of the industries highly and strictly controlled by the government. The role of the government in the sector is practised through the implementation of banking law and regulations that are designed to govern, guide, and control banking practices. Bank regulations may vary from place to place or jurisdiction, but almost all of the world’s banking laws follow general banking principles. These principles include the regulations on capital and reserve requirement, supervisory reviews that are necessary for the issuance of license to operate, and public disclosure of information for use by regulators, depositors and creditors. Other banking areas strictly regulated by governments are loan formulation and implementation and interest rate.
The Swiss banks were involved in many controversies.