“This Is Unacceptable” – Congressman Slams Yellen For Prioritizing Foreign Banks Over “America’s Interests”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 2, 2017
Finally, the Fed is in Trump’s sights.
In what may be a harbinger of major headaches to come for the Fed, a recent letter (Jan. 31) penned by Republican representative Patrick McHenry, Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has lashed out at Janet Yellen, telling the Fed chair in no uncertain terms that “despite the clear message delivered by President Donald Trump in prioritizing America’s interest in international negotiations, it appears that the Federal Reserve continues negotiating international regulatory standards for financial institutions among global bureaucrats in foreign lands without transparency, accountability, or the authority to do so.”
His assessment of this ongoing activity by the Fed: “This is unacceptable.”
McHenry’s emphasis is on “international forums” such as the Financial Stability Board, the Basel Committee on Banking and Supervision, and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, and he notes that “continued participation” in these forums must be “predicated on achieving objectives set by the new Administration”, something which will “likely require a comprehensive review of past agreements that unfairly penalized the American financial system in areas as varied as bank capital, insurance, derivatives, systemic risk, and asset management.”
He then adds that “the secretive structures of these international forums must also be reevaluated” because when the deals were negotiated, “international standards were turned into domestic regulations that forced American firms of various sizes to substantially raise their capital requirements, leading to slower economic growth here in America.”
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