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financial deregulation

 
 
noun [U] FINANCE, GOVERNMENT

Definition

the process of removing government rules controlling the way that banks and other financial organizations operate: The process of financial deregulation began in the late 1970s.
(Definition of financial deregulation noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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