Entries tagged "financial reform"

International issues may cloud finance reform

Creation of a resolution regime is complicated by international issue, the Fed's Daniel Tarullo says.

Dodd wants a single bank regulator

Sen. Christopher Dodd thinks the Federal Reserve should get out of the business of banking regulation.

FDIC seized 'healthy' banks

Critics of the FDIC such as Sen. Chris Dodd may have new ammunition against the regulator as some of the 120 banks that failed this year were deemed 'healthy,' possibly as recently as 2008.

What Volcker really wants

It's no secret that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker would like to see some sort of return to a Glass-Steagall-like wall. But does it mean the end of universal banking?

Martin Wolf on narrow banking

The Financial Times' Martin Wolf normally has one style: He's brutally straightforward. But Wednesday's discussion of 'narrow banking' is uncharacteristically hypothetical, even gnomic.

SEC, CFTC to play nice with each other

Securities regulators are taking seriously an Obama administration request to put aside turf battles and work together.

GAO urges Obama to consider new financial regulations

The Government Accountability Office urged President-elect Barack Obama Thursday to immediately consider revamping the financial regulatory structure, as the congressional watchdog added oversight of financial institutions and markets to its list of 13 urgent issues facing the 44th president. ...

Bernanke has an eye for the big picture

Maybe he's moved by the Wyoming scenery, but Ben Bernanke is thinking about switching from portraits to landscapes. The Federal Reserve Board chairman on Friday painted a picture of where he thinks financial regulation should go. ...

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