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Janet Yellen: “I cannot give you a definite timetable for our reconsideration of this, but it is something where perhaps our…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2017
I cannot give you a definite timetable for our reconsideration of this, but it is something where perhaps our regulations had an unintended consequence, and we are looking at that carefully.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen discusses the need to reconsider regulations affecting custody banks.

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