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The financial resolution and deposit insurance bill 2017:
a bank which is in dire condition or facing losses will be allowed to ‘cancel’ deposits of people to maintain market credibility. The bank may also decide to modify the kind of deposits made into something else! Which means, it can just refuse to pay depositors who have savings account (with variable deposit insurance, as I pointed out before) or they may turn a savings account into a Fixed Deposit for say 10 years without the possibility of withdrawal.
To put it simply, when a person puts in money into the bank and demands it back, the bank has to obey. Because it’s not their money. But now, if the bank is suffering huge losses (say due to companies who took loans and wouldn’t pay back) it will simply refuse to give the money and instead issue shares or an FD certificate, all based on the decision taken by the Resolution Corporation.