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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1999

William Jefferson Clinton12 November 1999

Washington · Government / Democratic Party Government

Clinton signs the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, allowing broader combinations of banking, securities, and insurance activities and assigning the Federal Reserve an important umbrella-supervision role for financial holding companies.

Names involved

William Jefferson Clinton

Provenance

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