num_pages: 352
description: A first-hand account of the oversight of the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis from the Federal Reserve examiner who refused to be silencedIn 2011 Carmen Segarra took a job as at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York supervising for Goldman Sachs. It was an opportunity she believed to monitor the big bank's behavior in order to avoid another financial crisis.Segarra was shocked to discover however the full extent of the relationship between Goldman and the Fed. She began making secret recordings that later became the basis of a This American Life episode that exposed the Fed's ineffectiveness in holding banks accountable.In Noncompliant  Segarra chronicles her experience blowing open the doors on the relationship between the big banks and the government bodies set up to regulate them.As we mark the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis Noncompliant shows us how little has changed and offers an urgent call for real reforms.
language: English
title: Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
publisher: Bold Type Books