In his new role as New York governor, Eliot Spitzer is joining forces with those he used to terrorize—Wall Street chief executives—to modernize financial services regulation in the state, the Financial Times reports. Spitzer is forming a panel with the executives, as well as with lawyers, consumer groups and regulators to streamline regulations and make New York more competitive with London, without sacrificing investor protection. The committee will be chaired by Eric Dinallo, the New York insurance superintendent, and will seek to simplify regulation of insurance companies state-chartered banks and securities dealers.
The panel’s members will include chief executives of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, AIG and MetLife, as well as representatives of consumer and New York business groups and four state agencies regulating the industry.
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