... crowning achievement of decades and millions of dollars worth of lobbying efforts on behalf of the finance industry. The repeal of Glass-Steagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but ... companies. Some of the largest financial firms, including Bank of America and Citigroup and AIG, received huge sums of capital assistance from the federal government. The system of non-bank institutions, ... in particular, wanted strict language to limit the direct oversight of the CFTC and SEC. A group of regulators, including the Chairs of the CFTC and SEC as well as Treasury Secretary Summers,...