Quantcast
Channel: Dodd-Frank financial oversight law – Insurance Journal
Browsing all 32 articles
Browse latest View live

Financial Services Oversight Rules Possible This Week

The Federal Reserve is expected to release this week a highly anticipated proposal for how it will oversee the largest U.S. banks, a person familiar with the plan said on Monday. The proposal, which...

View Article



Fed Proposes Rules to Restrain Wall Street Risk-Taking

The Federal Reserve proposed new rules on Tuesday to restrain risk-taking by the largest U.S. banks as it tries to make the financial system more resilient against future crises. The proposal, required...

View Article

SEC Weighs Exempting Insurance Companies from Volcker Rule

The top U.S. securities regulator said on Tuesday her agency is exploring whether insurance companies can qualify for a coveted exemption in the proposed Volcker rule that would protect them from...

View Article

Citigroup CEO, Directors Sued Over Executive Pay

Days after being rebuked by shareholders, Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Vikram Pandit and the bank’s directors have been sued by a shareholder accusing them of awarding outsized pay to top executives....

View Article

Lawsuit Seeks to Curb Powers of New Federal Consumer Financial Board

A small bank and two conservative advocacy groups said on Thursday that they would file a lawsuit against the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, challenging what they call the agency’s...

View Article


Derivative Reform to Be Finalized This Week

The U.S. swaps regulator is set to finalize this week a critical reform that will trigger banks and traders having to comply with costly new derivatives rules. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

View Article

Pawlenty to Head Financial Services Roundtable

Former Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty will become the head of the Financial Services Roundtable, a U.S. financial services lobbying group that represents JP Morgan Chase & Co. and...

View Article

3 States Join Lawsuit Challenging Dodd-Frank Law

Three U.S. states have joined a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that overhauled U.S. financial oversight and created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....

View Article


Former FDIC Chair Bair Reveals Financial Bailout Details in Book

When Sheila Bair showed up for a meeting in then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s office in October 2008, the bank regulator had no idea she was about to be asked to guarantee the debts of the entire...

View Article


Dodd-Frank Council to Proceed with Picking ‘Systemic’ Nonbank Firms

The Financial Stability Oversight Council voted to move a group of non-banking financial companies forward in a process that will determine whether they are so big their failure would destabilize the...

View Article

AIG Targeted as Likely ‘Systemically Important’ Financial Firm

Insurance giant American International Group Inc. said that it has received a notice from the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) that it is under consideration as a “systemically important...

View Article

Rep. Frank Defends JPMorgan Against Lawsuit Over Bear Stearns

Democratic Congressman Barney Frank defended the nation’s largest bank on Monday, saying in a statement that the government was wrong to go after JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the alleged misdeeds of...

View Article

Rules for Dodd-Frank Top Republican House Agenda

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are gearing up to overhaul the housing finance system this year and will soon map out ways to monitor Wall Street reform rules, according to a draft...

View Article


Fed Approves Process for Designating Nonbanks for Stricter Oversight

The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it had approved a final rule to clarify the process the new U.S. risk council will follow when it begins designating nonbank financial firms for...

View Article

Report: U.S. Making Progress Against ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Bailouts

For the past year, a special team of U.S. bank regulators has been on a quiet mission to end the belief on Wall Street that large banks are “too big to fail.” The team from the Federal Deposit...

View Article


MetLife to Sue to Overturn Systemically Risky Designation

MetLife Inc. said it will sue in federal court as part of Chief Executive Officer Steve Kandarian’s effort to overturn a finding that the insurer is systemically important. A complaint will be filed...

View Article

Financial Services Oversight Rules Possible This Week

The Federal Reserve is expected to release this week a highly anticipated proposal for how it will oversee the largest U.S. banks, a person familiar with the plan said on Monday. The proposal, which...

View Article


Fed Proposes Rules to Restrain Wall Street Risk-Taking

The Federal Reserve proposed new rules on Tuesday to restrain risk-taking by the largest U.S. banks as it tries to make the financial system more resilient against future crises. The proposal, required...

View Article

SEC Weighs Exempting Insurance Companies from Volcker Rule

The top U.S. securities regulator said on Tuesday her agency is exploring whether insurance companies can qualify for a coveted exemption in the proposed Volcker rule that would protect them from...

View Article

Citigroup CEO, Directors Sued Over Executive Pay

Days after being rebuked by shareholders, Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Vikram Pandit and the bank’s directors have been sued by a shareholder accusing them of awarding outsized pay to top executives....

View Article
Browsing all 32 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images