New Landscape, New Challenges: Structural Change and Regulation in the U.S. Financial Sector

Author/Editor:

Ashok Vir Bhatia

Publication Date:

August 1, 2007

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

Given the rapid evolution of the U.S. financial sector and attendant regulatory challenges, this paper explores ways to fine-tune U.S. oversight arrangements. It surveys the financial landscape, separating a highly regulated, multi-business, and (in terms of relative asset holdings) shrinking “core” from a lightly regulated, more specialized, and rapidly expanding “periphery” explains the U.S. regulatory philosophy and structure, with its focus on core institutions and its jurisdictional complexity; highlights certain new challenges, without presuming to have all the solutions; draws out some broad policy implications, from the “30,000 foot level” and concludes by tabling and discussing one, specific, reform idea.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2007/195

Subject:

Banking CDOs Commercial banks Investment banking Loans

English

Publication Date:

August 1, 2007

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451867596/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2007195

Pages:

24

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