Yellen underscores importance of financial regulation cooperation in call with EU official

Reuters

Published Mar 16, 2021 03:32PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen discussed the importance of close transatlantic financial regulatory cooperation in a phone call with the European Union's finance services chief, Mairead McGuinness, on Tuesday, Treasury said in a statement.

In the call, Yellen emphasized the importance of the transatlantic partnership and conveyed her intention to deepen U.S.-European cooperation on issues such as ending the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting a strong global economic recovery, fighting income inequality, and combating climate change, Treasury said.