Post-Crisis Financial Intermediation

Abstract

The recent financial crisis that begun in 2007 in the US, which then swept around the world, has left deep scars on the already wrinkled face of the global economy.Some national and regional economies, which had money for expensive makeup, or created money, managed to blur or hide the scars left by the crisis, others are still facing difficulties in overcoming the effects of this. In 2009-2011, the US Central Bank (FED) printed and injected into the market over 2300 billion USD, the Central Bank of Britain the equivalent of approx. 315 billion USD and the European Central Bank, following the example of the British and the Americans, launched, staring with January 2015, a quantitative relaxation program totalling 1100 billion Euro.The rapacity of banks, their greed and risk ignorance, were the origin of the outbreak of the last major economic and financial crisis but unfortunately those who were responsible or, rather, irresponsible, paid little or nothing at all for the burden of their bad loan portfolio. This cost has been supported by the population, either directly by paying high interest and fees [Mihai I., 2007], or indirectly, through the use of public budgets to cover the losses of banks, most of which had private capital.In this context, we intend to examine the state of financial intermediation in Romania in the post-crisis period, and to primarily follow: (i) The structure and evolution of the banking system; (ii) Non-government credit situation; (iii) The level of savings; (iiii) Loan-deposit ratio; (v) The degree of financial intermediation and disintegration phenomenon etc., and to articulate some conclusions and suggestions on the matters that have been explored.