Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2022

Abstract

Banking organizations in the United States have long been subject to two broad categories of regulatory requirements. The first is permissive: a “positive” grant of rights and privileges, typically via a charter for a corporate entity, to engage in the business of banking. The second is restrictive: a “negative” set of conditions on those rights and privileges, limiting conduct and imposing a program of oversight and enforcement, by which the holder of that charter must abide. Together, these requirements form a legal cordon, or “regulatory perimeter,” around the U.S. banking sector.

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Originally published as Di Lucido, Katherine, Nicholas Kean Tabor, and Jeffery Yufeng Zhang. "Fenceposts Without a Fence." Vanderbilt Law Review 76, no. 4 (2023): 1215-1264.


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