In November 2007, the Financial Services Roundtable published The Blueprint for U.S. Financial Competitiveness, a report that recommended ways to counteract the gradual decline in U.S. financial services competitiveness because of excessive regulation, litigation risk, and lack of regulatory coordination. Since then, many financial services organizations have provided comments and...

Three recent reports have warned that excessive regulation, litigation risk, and lack of regulatory coordination are contributing to the gradual erosion of U.S. financial services preeminence. Now, a fourth report, by the Blue Ribbon Commission on Competitiveness established by the Financial Services Roundtable, contains some important and unconventional recommendations for...

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