About the office of FInancial
Institutions
The Office of Financial Institutions coordinates the Department's
efforts regarding financial institutions legislation and
regulation, legislation affecting Federal agencies that
regulate or insure financial institutions, and securities
markets legislation and regulation. The Office coordinates
the Department's efforts on financial education policy and
ensuring the resiliency of the financial services sector
in the wake of a terrorist attack.
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The Office of Financial Institutions Policy develops, analyzes,
and coordinates the Department’s policies on legislative
and regulatory issues affecting financial institutions,
including depository institutions, insurance companies,
government sponsored enterprises, securities firms, finance
companies, mutual funds, and all other regulated and unregulated
financial intermediaries. The Office’s principal focus
is on issues dealing with safety and soundness, market structure,
condition, and competitiveness, and regulatory structure.
The Office of Financial Education is responsible for focusing
the department's financial education policymaking, and for
ensuring coordination on financial education within the
Department and all of its bureaus. The Office of Financial
Education serves to provide the Department of the Treasury
with expertise on the many complex and interdisciplinary
issues involved in financial education, and is able to tap
into the Department's wide base of expertise on finance.
The Office coordinates the Department's development and
implementation of policies regarding: the protection of
the critical infrastructure of the financial services sector,
including the Department's lead agency role with respect
to the financial sector; the enforcement of statutes and
regulations within the financial sector, including money
laundering, terrorist financing, and identity theft; and
the sharing of information among financial institutions
and between the private and public sectors, including financial
privacy and the sharing of suspicious information pursuant
to the Bank Secrecy Act.
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