WASHINGTON: US regulators have issued a rule requiring banks that sell loans to investors to keep part of the risk on their own books, a measure aimed at preventing the sloppy loans that sparked the 2007/09 credit crisis.
The rule was mandated by the 2011 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. After years of debate over its parameters, the 553-page measure was adopted by three of the six agencies that need to sign off on it.
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