To reduce the amount of
regulation over a
market or
economy. It may include reduced or eliminated requirements for reporting or filing statements with regulators. Deregulating may allow an organization to conduct more
activities than it could before; for example, it may allow a
bank to make more high
risk investments. Deregulation is intended to increase
efficiency in the market by letting the
Invisible Hand guide the
economy apart from government intervention. Opponents, however, argue that deregulation increases the likelihood of
fraud and unfair practices such as
insider trading. Many analysts agree that deregulation helps firms on solid financial footing and hurts those that are not.