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In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
Pages in category "Financial regulatory authorities of the United States" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Apart from the bank regulatory agencies the U.S. maintains separate securities, commodities, and insurance regulatory agencies at the federal and state level, unlike Japan and the United Kingdom (where regulatory authority over the banking, securities and insurance industries is combined into one single financial-service agency). [1]
The ratings agencies were heavily involved in the markets that enabled the subprime credit bubble of 2000-2008 and the subsequent financial crisis.In 1984 the federal government of the United States passed the Secondary Mortgage Market Enhancement Act (SMMEA) to improve the marketability of private-label (non-agency) mortgage-backed securities, [7] which declared NRSRO AA-rated mortgage-backed ...
Barr has clashed with the US banking industry over a new set of controversial capital rules proposed by top bank regulators that would require lenders to set aside greater buffers for future losses.
The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It established the Resolution Trust Corporation to close hundreds of insolvent thrifts and provided funds to pay out insurance to their depositors.
A debate about the aggressiveness of bank regulators is intensifying on the 15th anniversary of a bank collapse that triggered the 2008 financial ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in.
Klein, the Brookings senior fellow, noted that after the 2008 financial crisis, lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to consolidate bank regulators. “It has historically almost no ...