FDIC: 'systemic' non-banks are in four categories

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Bank regulators are segmenting non-bank institutions that could be considered "systemically important" to the financial system into four categories, according to a top bank regulator on Thursday. These institutions - yet to be named - would have to comply with tighter oversight, heightened capital and liquidity levels. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said in testimony prepared for a Capitol Hill hearing that a staff committee set up four categories: hedge funds and private equity firms, insurance companies, specialty lenders and broker-dealers. The Financial Stability Oversight Council, made up of bank and securities regulators "has begun developing measures of potential risks." posed by these firms," she said.

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