YELLEN: I don't believe the next financial crisis will be 'in our lifetimes'

• William Schomberg and Marc Jones, Reuters

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Federal Reserve Board Chair Yellen holds a news conference after the Fed released its monetary policy decisions in WashingtonThomson Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that she does not believe that there will be a run on the banking system at least as long as she lives.

"Would I say there will never, ever be another financial crisis? You know probably that would be going too far but I do think we're much safer and I hope that it will not be in our lifetimes and I don't believe it will be," Yellen said at an event in London.

(Reporting by William Schomberg and Marc Jones in London; Additional reporting by Jason Lange and Lindsay Dunsmuir in Washington; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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