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Too-Big-to-Fail Mortgage Banks at Center of Danish Bail-In Clash

The headquarters of the Danish central bank, also known as the Nationalbank, stand in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Denmark has changed the way it conducts monetary policy in response to a 2015 existential crisis, according to Danske Bank A/S, the country’s biggest lender.
Photographer: Carsten Snejbjerg/Bloomberg
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Should mortgage lenders be subject to the same resolution rules as other banks?

In Denmark, where lenders operating the world’s biggest covered-bond market are the backbone of the economy, the central bank and the government disagree on how to treat the industry in the event of a crisis.