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By Craig Torres, Bloomberg |
April 9, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said plans to limit the size or change the structure of the largest financial institutions must be made with the intent of allowing a failure without government aid.
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By Bloomberg |
April 1, 2013
Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other banks will be exempt from Dodd-Frank Act rules when trading between their own affiliates.
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By Press Release |
March 28, 2013
CFTC issues final order to exempt certain non-financial energy derivative transactions between government and/or cooperatively-owned electric utilities.
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By Silla Brush |
March 20, 2013
U.S. House lawmakers may advance legislation that would give banks greater ability to trade swaps overseas.
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By Silla Brush |
March 9, 2013
Dan M. Berkovitz will leave the CFTC at the end of the month after helping the agency write derivatives regulations required by the Dodd-Frank Act.
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By Cheyenne Hopkins and Silla Brush |
March 6, 2013
Lawmakers introduced legislation that would allow more swaps trading to be conducted at banks that have federal insurance.
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
March 1, 2013
The "sequester" has taken effect. According to multiple news reports, an early casualty will be the shipbuilding industry, especially on the military side. But it will also make more difficult the full implementation of the derivatives piece of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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By R. Scott Oswald |
February 22, 2013
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) may have tempered its ambition to regulate cross-border swaps, but whistleblowers abroad still will play an important role in preventing regulatory evasion.
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By Press Release |
February 14, 2013
CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler addressed customer protections and upcoming reforms to the swaps market today in a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
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By Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
February 4, 2013
Top U.S. bank regulators and lawmakers are pushing for action to limit the risk that the government again winds up financing the rescue of one or more of the nation’s biggest financial institutions.
