금융위기 이후 주요국의 투자은행업무 규제동향과 우리나라에서의 시사점

The financial crisis, which began in the United States, has exposed fundamental problems in the financial regulatory systems, especially in investment banking area since current regulatory systems have proven unable to prevent the crisis and been slow to design and implement adequate responses. South Korea's banking system has done relatively well in riding out the global financial and economic turbulence. But now it's time to ask a question: Has the nation done its best to keep local banks abreast with the world's topnotch banks?Such a question is so important that banking regulations relate to competition in international financial markets. In relation to this issues, some people believe that a few banks be into a super-sized bank with international competitiveness to be leaders in Asian banking market. Unfortunately, however, they should not forget that making a larger bank cannot be a one-size-fits-all solutions. Super-sized bank have the‘too big to fail’problem and it might be severe loss for S. Korea which is middle sized open economy. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the merit and demerit for financial regulatory policy between commercial banking and investment banking business in S. Korea. To review its implications in Korea, this article is organized into four chapters. Chapter Ⅰ provides overview of the fundamental issues which will be raised in next chapters. Chapter Ⅱ describes current investment banking business by Korean financial companies. Chapter Ⅲ review and examine the supervisory reforms in investment banking and universal banking regulatory systems especially in the United States and the U.K., and how they work. Chapter Ⅳ concludes and presents the direction for the prospective of Korea's relevant regulations on which Korean financial companies can grow in the international financial services sector.