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The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Wimpy Regulators and Red Tape The final installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Too Big to Fail, and Getting Bigger Here is the fourth installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Why Didn't Enforcement Work? The White House asked for feedback from the Motley Fool community and agreed to answer questions. Here is the second part of our interview with one of President Obama's chief economists. |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Would Glass-Steagall Have Saved Us? Here is the third installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 |
The Treasury Answers Fools' Questions Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin answers Motley Fool readers' questions regarding regulatory reform. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2009 |
The White House Wants to Hear From Fools The Motley Fool was selected by the White House to sit down with a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors on Tuesday to discuss the proposal. |
U.S. Banker November 2008 Michael Sisk |
In Pursuit of Sustainable Capitalism The case for greater regulatory CDS oversight appears to be finding traction. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Regulation vs. Capitalism The House Financial Services Committee dives into key measures of the White House's financial regulatory reform effort, and as expected, bankers, financial-industry lobbyists, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others all lined up with thick red pens poised to overhaul the overhaul plan. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
U.S. Banker April 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Trade Credit Default Swaps on an Exchange It's time for this vulnerable market to take its vaccine. |
U.S. Banker December 2008 John Schneider |
Transparency and Regulation are Coming to the CDS Market Currently, the financial markets do not have a mechanism to evaluate the overall exposure to CDS contracts. All that is going to change soon. |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The End Game for Wall Street Finally, an end to government support for the risky derivatives called swaps. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Warren Buffett Is Wrong on This One All derivatives should be regulated -- even Buffett's. |
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Will the States Be Able to Regulate Big RIAs? State regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet soon to iron out the details of shifting nearly 4,000 advisors from federal to state supervision. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2009 |
Last Call for Questions for the White House Got ideas for better financial regulation? We can take them to the Obama Administration. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush |
Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives. |
U.S. Banker January 2009 Joseph Rosta |
The Industry's New Year's Resolutions Here are five things the banking industry should consider to dig out of this recessionary ditch stronger than before. |
CFO August 1, 2012 Randy Myers |
Unfinished Business Two years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the law's implementation is far behind schedule, and its success is still in doubt. |
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different. |
CFO November 1, 2010 Vincent Ryan |
Making Sense of Bank Reform The Dodd-Frank Act is arguably as inscrutable as the institutions and instruments it is supposed to fix. |
Registered Rep. July 25, 2011 Lena S. Rizkallah |
Are the New Dodd-Frank Regulations Good for the Insurance Business? While the Dodd-Frank Act will impose additional restrictions on previously unregulated areas in the financial industry, it may also set additional limitations in place on the insurance industry, which some advisors view as unnecessary and others beneficial. |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John Berlau |
Overregulation Plan Won't Fix Financial Crisis Initial reports indicate that these early hopes of a more accountable regulatory structure from the Obama administration have been dashed. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Francis & Sasseen |
Financial Regulations: What Obama Wants The Administration's proposals for regulating the financial markets are wide-ranging. The question now: Are they tough enough? |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2008 Emil Lee |
Swaps Sink AIG AIG's stock gets pounded as the company ups its loss estimates. |
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 James Sterngold |
Let a Thousand Regulators Bloom As agencies begin rewiring Wall Street, job openings abound. |
Investment Advisor July 2010 Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
CFO October 1, 2004 Ronald Fink |
Default Swap Faults A dispute in the Enron bankruptcy case highlights troubling questions about credit default insurance. |
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
CFO October 1, 2010 Randy Myers |
The Calm Before Reform With sweeping new legislation on the horizon, companies (and their banks) try to gauge the impact. |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Jack Milligan |
Scrambling for Solutions Get ready for the mother of all lobbying battles in Washington later this year when the Obama administration starts pushing its reform agenda for financial regulation in the U.S. Congress. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction Are Still Primed Six years after Warren Buffet called derivatives "weapons of financial mass destruction" those weapons are still active, and their stockpiles are more heavily concentrated than before. |
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 Schmidt & Lanman |
An Unlikely Guardian Bank monitor Patrick Parkinson's intellectual backflip on policing derivatives has skeptics worried. |
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li |
Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks... |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Robert Schmidt |
Starving the Regulators The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are in a severe budget squeeze, and layoffs may be the only answer |
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken |
New Regulatory Requirements Require Data On-Demand With a plethora of proposed regulations in the pipeline, financial services firms are facing more strenuous audits and data reporting requirements that could result in penalties if firms get them wrong. |
Investment Advisor July 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Bracing for Change It looks to be all but inevitable that the rules for broker/dealers and investment advisors will be harmonized, and that broker/dealers offering investment advice will have to adhere to a fiduciary standard of care. |
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett |
Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants. |
CFO October 1, 2008 Avital Louria Hahn |
Back to the Drawing Board Burned by complex deals, investment banks show a new appreciation for simplicity. |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Risky Business Global banks will adapt to the new international rules on capital and liquidity, but at what cost to investors and the financial system? |
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza |
In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth. |
The Motley Fool March 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed? |
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2008 Penny Crosman |
Wall Street Taking A Closer Look at Collateral Management In the wake of the credit crisis, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, many of the top broker-dealers and a few buy-side firms are all involved in collateral management technology upgrades. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Next Shoe to Drop Billionaire investor George Soros speaks about the possibility of defaults on CDSs hangs like "a sword of Damocles that is bound to fall," and how this could be a financial calamity in the making. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd |
Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt. |
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Levisohn & Scott |
The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
The Next $350 Billion Hole Lehman goes out with a bang. |
On Wall Street May 1, 2013 Cumming & Horwitz |
SEC Takes on Structured Notes Large banks need to provide better information on these complex securities sold to the wealthy, regulator says. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 19, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Q&A: Banking Attorney Winthrop Brown on How the Dodd-Frank Bill Will Affect Banks Bankers should help regulators draft their new rules under the law, the Milbank Tweed partner says. |