Financial Regulatory Forum

By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – The head of the World Bank on Monday sounded a cautionary note about granting greater regulatory power to the U.S. Federal Reserve and said the dollar’s future will “depend heavily on U.S. choices.”

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                                         By Laura Macinnia and Patricia Zengerle
  (GENEVA/SHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – World economic leaders called on commercial banks on Monday to step up lending to revive an economy pitched into recession by failure of the global financial system.  The World Bank, in a letter to Group of Eight nations due to meet this week, said interventions by central banks and governments appeared to have “broken the fall in the global economy,” but 2009 remained a dangerous year. 

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