Learning British financial stability lessons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : However, if they continue to do so, we would recommend that all regulation and supervision, functional as well as administrative, be completely removed from the regional banks and placed under the FPC.Placing regulation and supervision under an FPC could help ensure that bank examiners are overseen in Washington by a committee comprised of experts in the fields of regulation and financial stability.
45% : This would leave regulation and supervision with the Fed, but strengthen and elevate its importance in decision-making. .
44% : This could be accomplished by placing the Fed's monetary policy responsibilities under a newly constituted, seven-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and placing regulation and supervision under a separate, seven-member Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
36% : While regional bank boards have no role in setting regulatory or supervisory policy, the optics of bank executives serving on them undermine public confidence and inevitably lead to speculation that their presence compromises bank oversight.
33% : Capital and liquidity stress tests continue to treat government securities as risk-free and highly liquid.

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