Trump has said he would "dismantle" key parts of the legislation.

And then on Monday, in an economic speech in Detroit, Trump went even further, saying that upon being elected he would call for a "moratorium" on new regulations. Excessive regulation, he said, had stifled economic growth and killed jobs.

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"I am going to cut regulations massively," Trump said.

While Trump's proposal would cover a wide swath of what Washington does, the effect on the financial sector would be particularly pronounced, leaving key aspects of Dodd Frank undone. As of July, six years after the legislation was passed, rules have not been proposed to address about 20 percent of the Dodd Frank requirements, according to data collected by Davis Polk, a large Washington law firm. The Securities and Exchange Commission has missed the deadline for about 17 percent of the regulations it was supposed to implement, for example.

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Among the rules that have yet to be implemented is a curb on Wall Street pay. (The rules have been proposed, but not adopted.) In addition, rules to limit risks in the complicated world of derivatives and commodity markets -- that caused many of the problems during the financial crisis -- are still being worked out.

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While conservatives generally agree that the business community is over regulated, Wall Street has been skeptical of calls to repeal Dodd Frank, concerned that the alternative would be even worse. Besides, large banks have already hired hundreds of lawyers to wade through the new requirements and spend thousands of hours a year lobbying on them. Many would rather just soften what is already in place rather than start over.

It is also unclear how Trump’s proposed moratorium would fit in with the call during the Republican National Convention for restoring the Glass-Steagall, the Great Depression-era legislation that divorced ordinary, commercial banking — such as taking deposits and making loans — from lucrative but risky and complex Wall Street banking. The proposal has been championed by Democrats, but is vilified in the banking industry.

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There are other parts of Trump's economic plan that will gain favor on Wall Street. He would do away with the estate tax, known by its critics as the "death tax." Trump said he would eliminate the so-called "carried interest loophole" that allowed financiers to pay a lower tax rate on their income, but replace it with a policy that tax experts say could leave private equity and hedge fund manager paying even less.