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Post-Crisis Rules to Keep Banks Safe Are on the Way Out

The Wall Street Journal · last updated

At a banquet in a gilded palace here on Tuesday night, U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves will outline plans to kick the country’s huge financial industry into a higher gear.

The planned address reflects a new willingness in both the U.S. and the U.K. to rethink tough banking regulations—rules put in place to stop the kind of financial crisis that enveloped the world nearly two decades ago.