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Tim Scott: “The SIFI threshold is too low, it appears, and we are making regional banks act like and think like and hire like it is…”

On the recordMarch 23, 2015
The SIFI threshold is too low, it appears, and we are making regional banks act like and think like and hire like it is a G-SIB.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Senator Scott argues that current regulations unfairly burden regional banks.

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