2009-02-17financialweek.com

"While the Treasury busily fills in the gaps in its latest plan to save the banking industry, a former Federal Reserve official says that regulators should instead apply a law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan meltdown.

The law, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act, was signed into law in 1991. In an interview with Financial Week, Bob Eisenbeis, a former research director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said the FDICIA contains more than enough tools for regulators to help stem the current financial crisis."



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