Monday, March 31, 2008

Shake-up aims to streamline US system

The US Treasury will on Monday unveil a plan for the biggest reshaping of the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression – but its recommendations may be more notable for what they do not seek to tackle. . . .

The plan also does not address the practices linked to the current housing and mortgage crisis, including the practice of packaging risky subprime mortgages into securities that formerly carried high credit ratings.

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