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On September 26, 2016, the Bipartisan Policy Center, a US-based non-profit organization, issued a paper entitled "Did Policymakers Get Post-Crisis Financial Regulation Right?"
On September 26, 2016, the Bipartisan Policy Center, a US-based
non-profit organization, issued a paper entitled "Did
Policymakers Get Post-Crisis Financial Regulation Right?" The
paper analyzes the effects of financial regulation post-financial
crisis and reported that, as a general matter, consumers are better
protected than before the crisis but that there were increased
barriers to affordable credit. In addition, the paper reported on
unintended consequences of increased financial regulation,
including the curtailment or shift of certain activities from banks
to nonbank providers and a lack of coordination on rulemaking.
Finally, the BPC recommended that the next president and Congress
instruct regulators and appoint an independent commission to
conduct a formal assessment of the post-crisis financial regulatory
structure.
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