After the crisis the government had to provide full guarantee to depositors in order to avoid runs on financial institutions and this has remained to the present.However, it is recognized that a deposit insurance (partial) system needs to be established as a focus their guarantee system tends to weaken the financial discipline of depositors who focus their attention only on returns while neglecting the quality and stability of the financial institutions that they are dealing with. This can lead to many problems in the longer term.A draft of the Deposit Insurance Act was approved by the cabinet in November 2004. Principally the deposit guarantee will be reduced to a maximum of 1 million baht per depositor per financial institution (reduced gradually over a period of 4 years). This would not affect most depositors as deposits as deposits of less than 1 million baht constitute 98.6% of all deposits in the banking system( as of March 2005). This Act should go through parliament in the next year or so.