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has strongly hinted that the agency she birthed in 2008 and opened for business in 2011 — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — should be given the authority to do even more. We don’t need more regulation. After all, The Big Three were regulated by the CFPB and the FTC, and look where that got us.
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Learning from history, he referenced the lack of regulatory controls in derivatives and financial engineering before the 2008 financial crisis, and more recently, the unregulated growth of cryptocurrencies leading to the “Crypto Winter” of 2022.
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regulators suggesting that lenders do not finance corporations with an already hefty debt load. financial regulators. “Regulators don’t make our loan decision for us,” said Wells Head of Corporate and Commercial Banking and Treasury Management Perry Pelos. “We have certain processes. ”
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