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"The empirical answer to the user's framing question is: **yes, the same comparatively small set of individuals — roughly 50–80 people globally — rotate simultaneously through the Financial Stability Board, the BIS Board of Directors, the Group of Thirty, and (through their national constituencies) the IMF's governance layers, and a documented subset of them have also held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citi, Brookfield Asset Management, and BlackRock or affiliated firms.** Above this layer, no body with binding legal enforcement power and direct democratic accountability exists. The FSB explicitly has no enforcement powers; the BIS is owned by its member central banks and enjoys diplomatic immunity; the G30 is a private 501(c)(3); and the IMF Board is accountable to finance ministries weighted by capital quota, not to electorates."

From The Self-Referential Loop at the Top of Global Financial Regulation: Named Individuals, Overlapping Mandates, and the Question of Democratic Accountability

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