Recently, a number of countries including Korea have been hard time in financial crisis
originated from the United States. Even though other countries have tried to overcome
this crisis by means of several measures, these measures do not work any more. In this
sense, our authority released the amendment of the financial holding company act
(hereinafter FHCA) in order to control the financial crisis in October, 2008.
In Particular, this amendment of the FHCA allowed financial holding
companies(hereinafter FHC) to be treated discriminately as their efficacy as compared to
bank holding companies (hereinafter BHC), insurance holding companies(hereinafter IHC)
and financial investment holding companies(FIHC). This philosophy of the amendment of
the FHCA is reflected into the several legal issues of the amendment of the FHCA, such
as subsidiaries, capital ratio, and concurrent position between FHC and its subsidiaries,
or among its subsidiaries under the roof.
This amendment of the FHCA is reasonable, but needs to be supplemented by several
actions, such as corporate opportunity doctrine(hereinafter COD), source of strength doctrine
(hereinafter SSD) and cross-guaranteed provisions(hereinafter CGP) which are rested on
responsibilities of FHC and its subsidiaries because most of them of the amendment of
the FHCA focuses on the preliminary regulations.