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Parent topics

• U.S. Senate [r]: The upper house of the United States Congress. ^[e]
  • Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. House of Representatives [r]: The lower house of the United States Congress. ^[e]
  • House Financial Services Committee [r]: U.S. House of Representatives committee responsible for the financial industry ^[e]
• Federal Reserve System [r]: The authority to which the United States government has assigned responsibility for the conduct of monetary policy and the supervision of member banks. ^[e]
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [r]: Independent agency created by the United States Congress with a remit to maintain stability and public confidence in the financial system by insuring deposits, examining and supervising financial institutions for safety and soundness and consumer protection, and managing receiverships. ^[e]
• U.S. Department of the Treasury [r]: Founded by Alexander Hamilton, one of the first three Cabinet departments of the new United States of America ^[e]

Subtopics

• Bank Holding Company Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bank Secrecy Act [r]: A piece of legislation with a somewhat confusing name, as it is intended to strip secrecy from certain bank customers who engage in possibly illegal activities, suggestive of money laundering or tax evasion ^[e]
• Check 21 Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Community Reinvestment Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Glass-Steagall Act [r]: Major U.S. banking legislation passed during Great Depression incorporated into the Banking Act of 1933 which separated commercial banking from investment banking among other acts. Partially repealed in 1999. ^[e]
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act‎ [r]: A 1999 U.S. law that repealed two provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932, and let banks, insurers, and securities traders combine their activities; it also introduced other changes to U.S. banking law including privacy requirements and expansions to the Federal Home Loan Bank System. ^[e]
• Know Your Customer regulations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Regulation CC [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Right to Financial Privacy Act [r]: U.S. legislation with the primary purpose of defining reasonable expectations of privacy of financial records, and situations where there are limits on privacy ^[e]

Other related topics

• Securities and Exchange Commission [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act [r]: Enacted in 2002 in response to major accounting scandals resulting in the collapse of major U.S. corporations, a strict set of rules for financial responsibility and audit in public companies; currently being challenged as overkill ^[e]
• Financial intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Federal Trade Commission [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Fair Debt Collection Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Securities Act of 1933 [r]: Add brief definition or description

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Macroeconomics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [r]: Independent agency created by the United States Congress with a remit to maintain stability and public confidence in the financial system by insuring deposits, examining and supervising financial institutions for safety and soundness and consumer protection, and managing receiverships. ^[e]
• Crash of 2008 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Federal Reserve system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Federal reserve system [r]: Add brief definition or description