The Financial Stability Oversight Council, the agency created to quickly identify and address risks to the stability of the U.S. financial system, needs greater transparency to do its job correctly, the Government Accountability Office says in a new study.

The FSOC also needs to create a better system of coordination, and to share more information with the public, the study asserts.

The GAO notes that coordination is important because the FSOC is composed of the heads of a number of disparate agencies.

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