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  2. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis

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    The government also repealed or implemented several laws that limited the regulation of the banking industry, such as the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and implementation of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. The former allowed depository and investment banks to merge while the latter limited the regulation of financial ...

  3. Land banking - Wikipedia

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    Blighted land in Philadelphia. Land banking is the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development.. While in many countries land banking may refer to various private real estate investment schemes, in the United States it refers to the establishment of quasi-governmental county or municipal authorities tasked with managing an inventory of surplus land.

  4. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

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    Pressure compounded on banks due to follow-on real estate effects and an 1980s farm crisisagricultural recession in Great Plains states. [60] The elimination of favorable tax treatment for real estate construction in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 also contributed to a slowdown in constructing lending and lowered real estate values. [61]

  5. Resolution Trust Corporation - Wikipedia

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    RTC literature in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation history exhibit. The Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) was a U.S. government-owned asset management company first run by Lewis William Seidman and charged with liquidating assets, primarily real estate-related assets such as mortgage loans, that had been assets of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) declared insolvent by the Office ...

  6. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is a formal U.S. government interagency body composed of five banking regulators that is "empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions". [2]

  7. List of financial regulatory authorities by jurisdiction

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    Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey (BRSA) ; Capital Markets Board (SPK) ; Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency (IPRSA) Turks and Caicos: Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission (TCIFSC) Uganda: Bank of Uganda ; Capital Markets Authority (CMA) ; Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda ...

  8. Bank regulation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Loans to Insiders (Regulation O) establishes various quantitative and qualitative limits and reporting requirements on extensions of credit made by a bank to its "insiders" or the insiders of the bank's affiliates. The term "insiders" includes executive officers, directors, principal shareholders and the related interests of such parties.

  9. Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act - Wikipedia

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    Non-bank mortgage lenders, Real estate appraisers, Loan brokers, Some financial or investment advisers, Debt collectors, Tax return preparers, Banks, and; Real estate settlement service providers. These companies must also be considered significantly engaged in the financial service or production that defines them as a "financial institution".