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Financial Regulatory Structure (podcast)

Posted on March 31, 2016
Over the past 150 years, the U.S. financial regulatory structure has evolved in response to various financial crises and to keep pace with financial markets themselves as they advanced from tickertape to e-trading and beyond. As you can see, the result is a complex system of state, federal, and other regulators.

regulators(Excerpted from GAO-16-175)

Listen to Lawrance Evans, a director in our Financial Markets and Community Investments team, discuss the nation’s current financial regulatory structure and how it could be restructured.
Financial Regulatory Structure
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