The strength and stability of a financial system is strictly measured by its ability to function in a state of equilibrium under normal and distressed conditions. If this main criteria is met, then the system’s proficiency to combine its structural, institutional and well-designed policies that follow free market principles - as one component, will not only provide a system in synchronism, but will also allow for a coordinated functioning of it as a coherent entity that will consistently sustain its compactness and reliability as one of the main mechanisms of the economy.

However, as the complexity and scale of the finance system grows - if the system’s structure is not systematically monitored, optimized and persistently promoted with the objective of reinforcing system-soundness against possible adverse shocks, then it will only be a matter of time before conditions for risk will arise, intensify, and consequently cause deteriorations, the negative reverberations of