WASHINGTON (AP) The world's biggest economies need to do more to strengthen financial rules to avoid a repeat of the disastrous 2008 financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Thursday.
Lew said he will use a February meeting in Australia of the Group of 20 major industrial countries to push other nations to overhaul their banking regulations.
"I will use this opportunity to call on the world's biggest economies to bear down even more forcefully on implementation," Lew said in a speech assessing the status of banking reforms.
"We will take steps to make sure that global banks meet the high standards that we have set," he said.
Lew said tougher rules were needed in other countries to make sure banks don't move their operations to nations with lax regulations.