US President Barack Obama meets with regulators June 17, 2009 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama is proposing a plan to restructure how banks and other financial firms are regulated. The plan, aimed at preventing a reoccurrence of financial turmoil, calls for a single regulator who would oversee big banks. Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

US President Barack Obama meets with regulators June 17, 2009 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama is proposing a plan to restructure how banks and other financial firms are regulated. The plan, aimed at preventing a reoccurrence of financial turmoil, calls for a single regulator who would oversee big banks. Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox.

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