Israel's Fischer on new banking law

Addressing the Knesset, Stanley Fischer, the governor of the Bank of Israel, urged lawmakers to push forward with a new law on the supervision of banking fees by the Supervisor of Banks.

The new law is aimed at tackling the low level of competition in Israel's banking sector, the governor said, which is the result of the existence of high barriers to entry.

"Regulating prices, in this case banking fees, is generally not the ideal method and we would prefer not to have to take this path. However

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