As compared to U.S banks, foreign banks are less regulated and have fewer restrictions concerning the types of business activities they can pursue. Therefore, foreign banks often engage in numerous aspects of multilayer financial deals. True or False

Sometimes more than one institution regulates and supervises the credit market (of banks and other credit institutions). For example, US banking It is regulated by a large number of institutions, because it distinguishes between different types of credit institutions, and because there are regulations both at the state and federal levels. Thus, among others are the Federal Reserve System (Fed), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision.

In addition, there are also associations of financial regulatory authorities. In the European Union, there are the European Committee of Securities Regulators (CERV), the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CESB) and the European Committee of Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisors (CESPJ), which are level 3 committees of the European Union in the Lamfalussy process. And, worldwide, there is the International Organization of Securities Commissions (UCITS).