US financial services regulation

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The Practice Notes in this subtopic deal with financial services regulation in the United States. The financial services industry in the US is heavily regulated by a myriad of different regulators at the state and federal level. In the wake of the global economic crisis the regulatory regime underwent much change. Additionally, the US regulators consider themselves to have a broad jurisdictional reach

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