U.S. financial laws/Related Articles

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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]

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 Partially repealed in 1999.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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act‎ [r]: A 1999 U.S. law that repealed two provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932, and let banks, insurers, and securities traders combine their activities; it also introduced other changes to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]