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Overhaul Plan at a Glance
Topics:Wall Street | Regulations | Federal Reserve | Mortgages | Credit | Banking
Sectors:Financial Services | Banks
The Bush administration's plan to overhaul financial regulation, as outlined in a summary obtained by The Associated Press, would:
- Expand the role of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets to include the entire financial sector rather than just financial markets.
- Create a federal commission, the Mortgage Origination Commission, to develop uniform, minimum licensing standards for mortgage market participants.
- Close the Office of Thrift Supervision, which regulates thrift institutions, and move those functions to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates banks.
- Merge the functions of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission into the Securities and Exchange Commission to create one agency to provide unified oversight of the futures and securities industries.
- Establish an Office of National Insurance within the Treasury Department to regulate those in the insurance industry who want to operate under an optional federal charter.
- Work to establish as a long-term goal three major regulators: the Federal Reserve as a "market stability regulator"; a "prudential financial regulator" to take over the functions of five separate banking regulators; and a "business conduct regulator" to regulate business conduct and consumer protection.
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