# Professor Richard Sylla discusses the evolution of America's banking landscape

1 Faculty News January 11, 2016 ![News Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033153.jpg?itok=aCaZBmHm)>

Excerpt from [The News Journal](http://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/industries/2016/01/11/architect-delaware-banking-law-awarded-josiah-marvel-cup-award/78628340/) -- "'For about 150 years, the United States did not have interstate banking and what those did was help advance the agenda of that movement so that, lo and behold, we got the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking Act of 1994,' \[[Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla)\] said."

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