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Barney Frank: “The question I had to ask you is this: Why do they not want to be designated?”

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
The question I had to ask you is this: Why do they not want to be designated?
Said by
Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Frank questions the reluctance of banks to be designated as SIFIs.

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