Answer:
a.True.
The maloney Act contains the co
called volcked rule,which prohibits depository banks from
proprietary trading.The important reason explain as bellow:
- The volcked rule first proposed by
president obama on jan 21,2010.The main objective of this rule is
prohibiting the proprietary trading and investing in private equity
fund, hedge fund etc.it seeks to make limited liability.
- The volcked rule protects the
customer of the bank.it's not allowing the banks to do private
investment,which leads the financial crisis.
- The rule which discourage the bank
willingness because the bank unnecessarily takes the extra risk to
earn profit which is in otherside not suitable for customer.so its
prohibits propreitary trding.
- The rule which intend to prohibits
the large bank from too big to fail.its impact our economics.so the
rule hepls to make the situation under control.
- When the rule being implemented the
all banks get safe because the bank will perform in a safety
manner.Simply accept the deposit and provide loans.The works of
intermidiator perfofmed in a effective way.The bank being happy
with their small profit margine and all hope if anything went wrong
the govt will help them.
- As per the rule the bank or any
institution can go for certain investment activities which is no
more risk which protect the institution.The institution always
maintain corporate compliance and do internal audit.
- The institution before going for
investment they need to awere about size,scope,risk,complexity etc
which makes bank confident.