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2 Apr 2011, 10:29 am by James Hamilton
Citing its unique role as a bank for central banks, the Bank for International Settlements has asked the SEC and CFTC for an exemption from the Dodd-Frank definitions of swap and security-based swap. [read post]
2 Apr 2011, 4:55 am by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
Last year, Obama didn't give the push for cap-and-trade legislation environmentalists had banked on, as the White House seemingly prioritized other issues like health care. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 11:31 am by Chris Jones
In fact, ironically, the only true statement above in this post is the part about car dealers being exepted from Dodd-Frank. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 10:55 am by James Hamilton
The amendment, which was essentially the SAFE Banking Act (S3241) the Senators had introduced earlier in the year, would have limited the size of these firms by imposing a strict 10 percent cap on any bank-holding-company's share of the United States' total insured deposits and limiting the size of non-deposit liabilities at financial institutions to 2 percent of GDP for banks, and 3 percent of GDP for non-bank institutions. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 9:12 am by Moria Miller
 Dodd-Frank also requires that most derivatives be traded on exchanges, so they can no longer be secret, private deals between two banks. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:00 am by Kara OBrien
The amendments are driven by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requirement that such credit-rating references be replaced with other standards. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 7:34 pm by Kevin Funnell
The American Banker recently ran an article (paid subscription required) that discussed one of those hare-brained legislative schemes that pop up in times of economic crisis and that lead us to conclude that when states rights advocates refer to states as "laboratories of democracy," they are referring to the laboratory of Doctor Frankenstein (pronounced "Frank-en-steen" for all you "Young Frankenstein" afficianados). [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 5:50 pm by James Hamilton
Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Chair of the Capital Markets Subcommittee. is the lead sponsor of legislation to prohibit the exemption of GSE securities from the risk-retention requirements of Dodd-Frank. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 11:00 am by Paul Caron
Lee Sheppard (Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts) speaks today at John Marshall's Center for Tax Law & Employee Benefits on Dodd-Frank Act's Stranglehold Over Banks: Lee will speak on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and its impact on banks' capital requirements. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 10:22 am by James Hamilton
Consistent with the securitization and ``skin in the game’’ risk retention provisions of Dodd-Frank, the SEC and the Federal banking agencies will propose regulations this week requiring securitization sponsors to retain an economic interest equal to at least 5 percent of the aggregate credit risk of the assets collateralizing an issuance of asset-backed securities. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 7:11 am by Marie L. Oliver
  However, the Dodd-Frank Act was designed to diminish the ratings’ importance. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 3:47 pm by James Hamilton
He is concerned because, while the SEC and federal bank regulators must jointly adopt retention rules, there already have been several ad hoc rules from individual regulators that simply blanket a single retention framework broadly across all asset classes. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 11:41 am by James Hamilton
With the SEC and the federal banking agencies set to consider risk retention rules under Dodd-Frank, the Senate authors of the qualified residential mortgage carve out have written to the Commission to clarify the legislative intent of the carve out, which is codified in Section 941. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 3:10 pm by James Hamilton
In the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act allows the CFTC to impose position limits across different markets, including the energy and agricultural markets, and with respect to trading in certain OTC derivatives. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 2:57 pm by Alain Leibman
” Statement 2 to the 2009 Form 990-PF reflects $239 in “Interest on Savings and Temporary Cash Investments” from Bank of America. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 7:00 am by Kara OBrien
Last week, the FDIC approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to further clarify application of the orderly liquidation authority contained in Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 9:12 am by Sheldon Toplitt
Except for e-readers such as Kindle and Nook, Times subscribers who receive home delivery will have free access to all Times' digital plaforms.Times executives expect 85 percent of their online visitors will not surpass the free 20-article quota, but are banking on not losing readers who can access news for free at CNN, BBC and other Websites. [read post]