Here,a former official of Goldman Sachs investment bank explains what his group did before the financial crisis.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Another financial expression is "run on the bank."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

He also touted his more popular effort to reform the nation's financial industry and hold bank executives more accountable.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The Bank of Japan agreed to loan $115 billion to financial institutions for three months at a rate of 0.1 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

And,despite continuing bank failures, Geithner says America's financial system has also been rescued and a catastrophic credit squeeze has eased.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

President Barack Obama says the lavish bonuses to bank executives show the need for the financial reforms he signed into law earlier this week.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

But Fed chairman Ben Bernanke countered, saying the central bank's expertise in setting monetary policy makes it uniquely qualified to identify risks to the financial system.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

While banks in the United States have historically been subject to robust government regulation, non-bank financial firms have been allowed to operate with a freer hand.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Mr.Zuma said the global economic crisis highlighted the need to reform the international financial system and multilateral lending groups like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

"Neither monetary policy nor the financial system will be well served if our central bank is deprived from interest in and influence over - the structure and performance of the financial system."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Earlier this week, Secretary Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also discussed with Congress another step which would enable the government to take control of major non-bank financial institutions threatened with collapse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"To close this important gap in our regulatory structure, legislative action is needed that would subject all systemically-important financial institutions to the same framework for consolidated supervision that currently applies to bank holding companies."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

On Tuesday,Geithner told Congress that the government must have the authority to seize non-bank entities, arguing that massive destabilizing dangers can come from financial institutions - a lesson learned from the rescue of American International Group,or AIG, a giant insurer that received a $180 billion taxpayer bailout.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25