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’Crumbling resistance to financial reform
John Kemp at Reuters makes an important point: the SEC’s move against Goldman Sachs over subprime makes the passage of financial reform legislation through Congress a racing certainty.
Despite the widely-held belief that Wall Street has Washington over a lobbyist’s barrel,
23,000 words on derivatives reform
Oh goodness, Republican Senator Judd Gregg has his work cut out in mastering the intellectual debate on fixing the derivatives trade.
Here’s a long and detailed paper entitled: The Derivatives Dealers’ Club and Derivatives Markets Reform:
The derivatives ding-dong waiting in the Dodd bill
Looks like the flagship of US financial reform won’t have plain sailing after all.
Tuesday brought an odd bit of shadow-boxing over where to park derivatives trading in the post-Lehman age. Something to watch,
The Dodd bill has an is-ought problem
A what-ought problem? An is-ought problem.
Senator Chris Dodd’s gigantic financial reform bill is starting to attract a bit of nerd rage for giving regulators power to regulate — but not the requirement to use it.
Fed bank supervision: the case for the defence
Ben Bernanke’s prepared testimony for his appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday makes a case for the continued independence of the Federal Reserve, at least as far as bank regulation is concerned.
What does the Dodd bill mean for commodities regulation?
If you were wondering how Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd’s proposed bill on financial regulation might affect commodity trading, John Kemp at Reuters has done much of the hard work for us.
Bill seeks to strip Fed of powers
An influential US Senate committee has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s regulatory architecture that would strip powers from the Federal Reserve and create a single banking regulator. The bill,