Regulatory Reform: What to Expect Next - Insights from Former Regulator Christie Sciacca

Published: June 17, 2009, 6:25 p.m.

b'President Obama on Wednesday spelled out the details of his long-awaited plan for financial services regulatory reform. In an exclusive interview, Christie Sciacca, formerly with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, currently a director with LECG in Washington, D.C., discusses:\\n\\n

The biggest news from Obama\'s plan;
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Where opposition is likely to emerge;
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What to expect next in the reform process.
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Sciacca spent 23 years at the FDIC, where he led examination, supervisory and bank rescue transaction projects in Detroit, New York, and Washington DC. From 1983-1986, Sciacca was Assistant to the Chairman, representing the Chairman on interagency matters, at bank trade association meetings and on all operational and policy matters. Sciacca served as the FDIC\'s representative on the Vice President\'s Task Group on the Regulation of Financial Services. In 1996, he returned to the FDIC to establish that agency\'s International Branch and from 1997-2002 served as the head of all supervisory policy, including domestic and international bank supervision, capital markets and accounting policy.'