After the 2008 financial crisis, rules required much greater transparency on the sale of credit default swaps. But a loophole allows banks to evade regulation by offloading the trades to foreign subsidiaries. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters hide caption
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking Committee in July. President Trump has given mixed signals about whether he will re-appoint her when her term as chair expires in February. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, shown here at a hearing in March, claims many of the provisions in Dodd-Frank have hurt the economy. Jacquelyn Martin/wld hide caption
Demonstrators voiced opposition to year-end bonuses for Wall Street executives, during a protest outside the New York Stock Exchange in December 2010. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Morgan Stanley's Times Square headquarters in New York City. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, shown here at a September 2014 panel discussion, says he is pleased to resolve the allegations against the firm. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Some Democratic candidates have blamed the 1999 scaling back of the Glass-Steagall Act for the financial collapse. That's arguably only partially true. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
Traders signal offers Monday in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Major market indexes tumbled around the world amid worries about China's slowing economy. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Don't Panic About Stocks. It's Not 2008 All Over Again, Economist Says
A poor economy and nine years of recession have caused many to leave Puerto Rico. Margalit Francus/Flickr hide caption
PREPA's Central Palo Seco power station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The utility's bondholders want to raise rates. That's a challenge when the median income is about half that of Mississippi, yet the U.S. territory's energy costs are among the highest in the nation. Alvin Baez-Hernandez/Reuters/Landov hide caption
Power Problems: Puerto Rico's Electric Utility Faces Crippling Debt
Protesters gather April 30 outside Puerto Rico's Capitol building in San Juan to oppose Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla's budget proposal. The plan would raise taxes to help cover the state's massive debt. Ricardo Arduengo/AP hide caption
Bank of America would pay more than $16 billion in a settlement that it's close to finalizing with the Justice Department. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
The Citigroup Center is viewed in midtown Manhattan. Critics say the U.S. settlement with the banking giant will do nothing for those hurt most by the foreclosure crisis: people who lost their homes. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Citigroup has agreed to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into subprime mortgages it sold in the run-up to the financial meltdown of 2008. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption
President Obama with Paul Volcker at the White House in 2009. Volcker, who headed the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, lent his name to a new rule aimed at curbing risk-taking on Wall Street. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images hide caption
Sept. 15, 2008, in London: The news of Lehman's bankruptcy hits. Cate Gillon/Getty Images hide caption