BREAKINGVIEWS-Barney Frank’s legacy will linger on Wall Street

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By Gabriel Rubin and Jonathan Guilford

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The irascible New Englander who co-led the legislative response to the 2008 financial crisis has died at 86. Despite recent deregulation, the Dodd-Frank law’s framework for safeguarding banks from their own worst impulses reshaped US finance in ways that cannot be simply undone.

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Barney Frank, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee who co-wrote the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, died on May 20.


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