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

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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.

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  • Mr. Ashok Vir Bhatia, 2007. "New Landscape, New Challenges: Structural Change and Regulation in the U.S. Financial Sector," IMF Working Papers 2007/195, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2007/195
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    4. Sara Hsu & Alba Carolina Melchor Simon, 2016. "China’s structural transformation: reaching potential GDP in the financial services sector," China Finance and Economic Review, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 1-17, December.
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