WASHINGTON: Setting up a certain fight with big business, President Barack Obama is proposing a new regulatory agency to police lenders and protect consumers in credit, savings and other banking transactions.
The consumer agency and a newly empowered Federal Reserve will be two of the central elements of a broad overhaul of the U.S. financial regulatory system that the president will announce on Wednesday, officials said.
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