Famous Acts Regulating The Street

Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank system of the U.S..

The Glass-Steagall Act aka. Banking Act of 1933
Separated commercial banking from investment banking, establishing them as separate lines of commerce.

International Banking Act of 1978
Brought foreign banks within the federal regulatory framework. Required deposit insurance for branches of foreign banks engaged in retail deposit taking in the U.S..

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
Repeals last vestiges of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. Modifies portions of the Banking Holding Company Act to tallow affiliations between banks and insurance underwriters.
Allows national banks to underwrite municipal bonds.
Restricts the disclosure of nonpublic customer information by financial institutions.
"The Citigroup relief act"

International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001
Title III of the USA PATROIT Act. Legislation designed to prevent terrorists and others from using the U.S. financial system anonymously to move funds obtained from or destine for illegal activity.
The law requires financial institutions to establish anti-money laundering programs and imposes various standards on money-transmitting businesses.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Sarbox established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to regulate public accounting firms that audit publicly traded companies. It prohibits firms that audit publicly traded companies from providing other services to the company they audit, and it requires that CEOs and CFOs of the public traded companies certify their companies' annual and quarterly reports.
Authorized the SEC to issue rules to governing audits.

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
This Act authorized the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700B to purchase distressed assets, particularly MBS, and supply banks with cash.

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The Act implemented significant changes affecting the oversight and supervision of financial institutions and systemically important financial companies. It also provided the FDIC with new resolution powers for large financial companies, created a new agency (the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), introduced (for nonbank financial companies) or codified (for bank holding companies) more stringent regulatory capital requirements, and set forth significant changes in the regulation of derivatives, credit ratings, corporate governance, executive compensation, and the securitization market.

The Volcker Rule
The Volcker Rule refers to § 619[1]
(12 U.S.C. § 1851) of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.
from https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/important/