A Rapid U-Turn: The Year in Banking Regulation

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The U.S. bank oversight regime has been likened to a battleship that takes a long time to turn in a different direction. This year proved that analogy wrong.

Donald Trump slotted appointees into the banking agencies in what felt like record time, bucking the hist…