Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for looser regulations for the U.S. financial system
Bessent aims to reduce duplicative regulations and encourage AI innovation in finance, with FSOC forming new working groups to assess regulatory burdens, promoting economic growth.
- Treasury Secretary Bessent will recommend changing the approach of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to push for looser regulation and a freer approach to the U.S. financial system.
- The FSOC was formed after the 2008 financial crisis to monitor and address systemic risk, but Bessent says efforts to safeguard the financial system have resulted in burdensome regulations.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticized the idea of loosening financial regulations, saying it would leave the financial system and economy at greater risk.
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US Treasury chief promises changes in 'overregulation approach' in financial system
'Little thought was given to the harms of overregulation, the imbalance between costs imposed and benefits achieved, and the economic stagnation that can follow. Our Administration is changing that approach,' Scott Bessent says - Anadolu Ajansı
Bessent Moves to End FSOC’s Drift, Putting Growth and Security at the Center
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday outlined a sweeping reset of the U.S. government’s main financial stability watchdog, arguing that the Financial Stability Oversight Council should treat economic growth and economic security as preconditions for stability, not competing goals The post Bessent Moves to End FSOC’s Drift, Putting Growth and Security at the Center appeared first on Breitbart.
Bessent Pushes Deregulatory, Growth-Focused Pivot in Financial Stability Oversight
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced a sweeping overhaul of the government body responsible for monitoring emerging threats to the nation’s financial system, pushing for an approach more oriented toward economic growth. In an introductory letter accompanying the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) annual report, published Dec. 11, Bessent wrote that the council will pivot away from tightening what he called “prophylactic” re…
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