Janet Yellen Says Regulators Have Made Progress on Correcting Flaws

May 6, 2015 Share Print 0

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the Fed and other banking regulators have made significant progress in correcting flaws in the financial system that triggered the worst banking crisis in seven decades.

Banking regulators are remaining “watchful” for any areas where further reforms may be needed, she said in remarks at a financial conference.

Yellen cited the need to address the problem of “too big to fail”—the perception among investors that some institutions are so large that the government will step in and save them if they get into trouble.

She said the Fed and other regulators are taking steps to make sure that the collapse of even very large banking institutions can be handled in ways that don’t jeopardize the stability of the entire system.

Yellen’s comments came in a joint appearance with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde at a conference sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

via CNBC

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Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.