Congress is Pushing Another Round of Risky Wall Street Bank Deregulation

Congress is Pushing Another Round of Risky Wall Street Bank Deregulation

By Oscar Valdés Viera, Senior Policy Analyst, Private Equity & Capital Markets Last month—and on the sixteenth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the fifteenth anniversary of the day the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors—the House majority advanced legislation to weaken major safeguards established after the last financial crisis. Wall Street banks have been lobbying for years to …