The Federal Reserve has heard plenty from U.S. banks about what’s wrong with various proposed pieces of Dodd-Frank rulemaking. Now, according to Kate Davidson of Politico Pro (April 15), the Fed is “getting an earful from foreign banks and their regulators, too.”
Ever since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, “the financial industry has been spending billions of dollars on lawyers and lobbyists,” all of them “charged with one task: weaken the thing.”
Bank fees charged on structured notes tied to stocks climbed to a three-year high in the first quarter of 2013,
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has decided to exempt so-called inter-affiliate swaps deals from its Dodd-Frank-mandated derivatives rules.
“[I]t has taken federal regulators nearly three years since the passage of Dodd-Frank… to define which nonbank companies, if they were to fail, could threaten the integrity of the country’s financial system.”
Without a neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown, “it is impossible to measure the impact of the national mortgage settlement in any meaningful way.”
The Agriculture Committee’s bills would “enable public bailouts of swaps dealers, weaken the ability of regulators to control derivatives trading in overseas subsidiaries of Wall Street banks and establish a blanket exemption for derivatives transactions among the thousands of subsidiaries of global banks.”
Under huge pressure and intense scrutiny, the CFPB’s “execution has been pretty darned good,” says AFR ‘s Lisa Donner..
Combing through a 1000-page contract, the Tribune found “some eye-opening fees.” Such as $2.95 for “reloading your account online using a credit card.”
“Last week’s Senate report on JPMorgan Chase’s ‘London Whale’ trades should have redoubled Washington’s resolve to carry out the basic derivatives safety measures of Dodd-Frank. But too many members of the House Agriculture Committee seem to have their heads buried in the sand.”