Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatory data, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing on Capture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops “knowledge capture” as a theoretic framework to assess financial regulation under conditions of 21st century complexity. Contents Narratives of the Global Financial Crisis Multi-Level Complexity: The 21st Century Financial System US Policy Responses to the Crisis Knowledge Asymmetries and the Idea of Knowledge-Based Regulation Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: A Theoretic Framework Target Groups Lecturers and students of Political Science, Sociology and Economics Experts for Financial Market Regulation The Author Eva Becker holds a degree in communication management, philosophy and comparative literature (BA at University of Leipzig, Germany) and public management and governance (MA at Zeppelin University, Germany). From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a research associate on Helmut Willke’s research project “policy responses to systemic risk”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).