Testimony to Senate Banking Committee on Modernizing Bank Supervision and Regulation
The job of modernizing the U.S. system of financial markets oversight and financial products regulation will involve much more than the addition of a layer of systemic risk oversight. The regulatory system must provide for effective household risk regulation as well as systemic risk regulation. Regulators must exercise their existing and any new powers more vigorously, so that routine, day to day supervision becomes much more effective. Gaps that allow unregulated financial products and sectors must be closed. This includes an end to unregulated status for the “shadow” financial sector. Regulators must place a much higher value on the prevention of harm to consumers. This new infrastructure, and the public servants who staff it, must protect individuals as consumers, workers, small business owners, investors, and taxpayers.
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