# Professor Lawrence White is quoted in a feature story about the rollback of federal regulations on Prudential Financial and other firms

1 Faculty News October 17, 2018 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/17/prudential-financial-no-longer-needs-federal-oversight-regulators-say/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cd697ba79ce5) -- "'The financial system is complex, and things can go wrong. We need multiple regulatory controls,' said Lawrence White, a business professor at New York University who has studied financial regulation."

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