Financial Services Legislation and Bank Holding Companies : What are Firewalls?
Analyzes the "firewalls" that would separate and insulate the federally insured and protected banking parts of financial service holding companies from their riskier securities, insurance, or real estate components by safeguards against financial and informational abuses and conflicts of i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | U.S. Congressional Research.
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| Summary: | Analyzes the "firewalls" that would separate and insulate the federally insured and protected banking parts of financial service holding companies from their riskier securities, insurance, or real estate components by safeguards against financial and informational abuses and conflicts of interest. Details the efficacy and legislative foundation of firewalls and current legislative activity mandating them. |
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| Item Description: | Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |