This law follows the disastrous consequences of the 2007-2008 financial crisis , which was caused, in part, by the default on subprime mortgages (of the real state sector). The law aims at preventing the same circumstances that caused the crisis from happening, or, at least, minimize the effect of those circumstances . One of the main topics about the financial crisis was that the doctrine “too big to fail” proved to be false , since the crisis started with the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank, which was one of the biggest banks in the US. Beyond that, the intense use of securitization techniques was a big issue, because low-risk mortgages were mixed with high-risk mortgages, for later selling these new financial instruments while keeping a low-risk label . This dangerous process was possible because the new instruments were backed by some type of default insurance. This shouldn’t had been a big problem, but the loose regulations on lending and the US laws whose existence wa...
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