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A key regulator of Wall Street banks has joined the Federal Reserve in warning about risky corporate borrowing that has reached record levels as lender protections are eroded. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cautioned in its Semiannual …

Barely two weeks after the big subprime lender New Century Financial Corp. went bankrupt, a top Standard & Poor’s executive assured Congress that her employer could be counted on to sound the alarm for the next credit disaster. S&P ratings …