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US banks face new level of oversight

By Greg Farrell

Published: July 1 2009 23:17 | Last updated: July 1 2009 23:17

US banks, which face an alphabet soup of regulatory overseers, will get yet another layer of oversight in the wake of a Supreme Court decision this week allowing state officials to pursue cases against federally chartered institutions.

On Monday, the court ruled that state regulators could sue national banks on behalf of consumers in cases where state lending laws were not pre-empted by national statutes.

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