I’m sure many Africans are looking for safe and profitable investment opportunities too. You may have noticed that you are sitting in what was once such an infrastructure investment. The gasometer in the Schöneberg district of Berlin is an early-20th century industrial site. When it was constructed in 1908, it was one of the three largest gas holders in Europe.
Such market discipline may mean that the expected rise in the cost of bank funding would be counterbalanced by an overall reduction in bank risk and hence the cost of funding may not rise. By redistributing the risk between tax-payers, depositors and debt holders, bail-in rules can reduce the overall risk in the system.