20 Words That Will Make Or Break Financial Reform

20 Words That Will Make Or Break Financial Reform
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, questions regulators during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. U.S. regulators told lawmakers they are making significant progress to prevent a repeat of the 2008 credit crisis, pushing back against complaints of slow progress and efforts to undo parts of the Dodd-Frank Act. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, questions regulators during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. U.S. regulators told lawmakers they are making significant progress to prevent a repeat of the 2008 credit crisis, pushing back against complaints of slow progress and efforts to undo parts of the Dodd-Frank Act. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Derivatives, those complex exploding financial securities that were at the heart of the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse and global financial crisis, have been at the top of bank reformers’ agenda over the past five years.

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