Entries tagged "CFTC"
Behind closed doors and drowned out by the din of the healthcare debate, Wall Street wages a quiet war to forestall tougher regulations for the nuanced and largely unregulated derivatives market.
Proposals to reregulate derivatives haven't even been submitted yet, and Congress is already bickering over who will control what.
Regulators jockey to oversee Wall Street's latest villain.
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Mary Schapiro as chairwoman of the agency. The SEC has recently come under...
Credit default swaps get the attention of regulators, exchanges and clearinghouses, but how the process will settle is anyone's guess.
Evil speculators get a once-over on Capitol Hill.
