As a special kind of participant in financial market, systemically important financial institutions ("SIFIs") have negative externalities, i.e., they could lead to systemic risk and huge government bailout costs. Under the traditional micro-prudential financial regulation system, negative externalities arising from SIFIs could not be adequately addressed, which causes serious threat to the stability of financial system and even the real economy. The 2008 global financial crisis has fully exposed the material weakness and defects in the legal system of traditional financial regulation in supervising SIFIs. In the post-crisis era, the international community is in an effort to overcome the defect in traditional micro-prudential regulation through the construction of the legal system of SIFIs regulation.The construction of such a legal system should be centered on reasonable recognition, strengthened supervision and effectively resolution of SIFIs. In response, China should actively participate in the construction of an international regulation system of SIFIs, and establish its own regulation system in conformity with China's current financial industry. In China, SIFIs exist in many sectors of financial industry. As a result, the legal system of financial regulation in China also faces the negative externalities problem of SIFIs. Ever since the 2008 financial crisis, China has attached great importance to the regulation of SIFIs. Considering the national condition and basic state of financial industry in China as well as the working product of relevant international organizations and the legislative practices of developed countries such as the U.S., as a next step China should focus on the following two aspects. The first is to continue to play a role in the relevant international organizations, promoting the construction and perfection of the legal system of SIFIs regulation in international community. The second is to further promote the construction of relevant legal rules and develop a comprehensive legal system of SIFIs regulation in China. |