Jerry Caprio and Ila Patnaik, at two ends of the world, on the same subject.
The UK Special Resolution Regime has excellent documentation on the web.
There is a lot of talk in India about financial stability, where basic ideas are distorted to defend the status quo. Financial stability is, sadly, not interesting to the establishment when achieving it requires undertaking economic reform. One example of this is the problems of closing down failed banks or other financial firms: few things are more important to financial stability than the machinery of the bankruptcy process for financial firms. The best thinking on how to build deposit insurance is found in Chapter 6 of Raghuram Rajan’s report. In the mid 1990s I was member of an RBI committee on reforming deposit insurance. There hasn’t been any movement on this in decades.
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