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Schneiderman: Group Tasked With Probing Mortgage Crisis Needs 'More Resources'

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Video, Residential Mortgage Backed Securities Working Group, Eric Schneiderman, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Sec, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, New York Attorney General, Financial Regulation, Cftc, Mortgage Task Force, Business News

When it comes to getting to the bottom of the financial crisis, it seems everyone could use a little bit more help. A government task force known a...

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Regulator Seeks Advice On Watering Down Volcker Rule

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Video, Cftc Volcker Rule, Dodd-Frank, Wall Street, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Jpmorgan, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Reuters, Volcker Rule, Cftc, Volcker Rule Cftc, Business News

* US CFTC to examine hedging, market-making exemptions * Rule received new scrutiny since JPMorgan trading loss * Sheila...

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Wall Street Reform: Taking a Knife to a Gunfight

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Congress, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Reform, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Elections 2012, Enron, Wall Street Reform, Jamie Dimon, Volcker Rule, Cftc, Financial Watchdog, JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street, Wall Street Regulation, Barack Obama, Mary Schapiro, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sec, Banking Reform, Gary Gensler, Glass-Steagall, Gary Gensler Chairman CFTC, Lobbyists, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, Appropriations, Banking Lobby, Banking Industry, Obama 2012, Dodd Frank, Special Interests, Business News

If Congress is truly serious about banking reform, it needs more than just well-intentioned laws: it also needs the right people to enforce those laws, it needs to give those people the resources they require to do their job properly, and it needs to pay them decently.

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"Outgunned"

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Dodd-Frank, Financial Reform, Mary Schaprio, London Whale, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Securities and Exchange Commission, Video, Business News

Two of the most important financial regulators in the country have a message for Congress: We need more money. At a hearing before the Senate Bank...

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Debate Over New Rules Heats Up In Wake Of JPMorgan Loss

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Jpmorgan Regulation, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Wall Street, Senate Banking Committee, Jpmorgan, Jamie Dimon, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Regulation, Ap, Cftc, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators and lawmakers are renewing the focus on financial regulation in the wake of a multibillion-dollar trading loss ...

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Why a Banker Thinks Wall Street Should Be Regulated

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Derivatives Reform, Wall Street Reform, Jamie Dimon, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Financial Crisis, Derivatives Trading, Alan Greenspan, Financial Regulation, Business News

Most bankers are not the unethical and blindly greedy creatures that politicians and the media make them out to be; and there is no doubt that without the productive activities of the banking sector, no other industry in our nation would be able to survive or thrive. But that does not mean there isn't a ghost in the machine.

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Richard Sandor: A Legend in Financial Innovation

Michael Martin | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Commodities, Greenhouse Gases, Derivatives, Carbon Trading, Chicago, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Cftc, Carbon Footprint, Water, Water Crisis, Richard Sandor, Business News

Richard Sandor is not a household name but he should be. He is quite frankly one of the most important people in finance today given his 40 years of innovation.

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President Obama Speaks and the Oil Speculators React

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Politics, Cnbc, President Obama, Oil Speculation, Natural Gas, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Bart Chilton, Commodity Exchanges, Leon Hess, Algorithmic Trading, CME Group, Citigroup, Oil, Business News

Natural gas, as traded today on U.S. exchanges, is a uniquely isolated American commodity and any attempt at influencing its price, overt or otherwise, would fall under the purview of the nation's anti-trust laws and its stated prohibitions to all manner of collusion.

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'Milestone' Case Punishes High Frequency Trading Firm

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: High-Frequency Trading, New York Mercantile Exchange, Video, Optiver, Reuters, Oil Prices, U.S. President Barack Obama, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Cftc, Newedge in Japan, Business News

U.S. regulators' $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a "milestone" victory in their...

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Obama vs. Speculators

Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Gop, Gas Prices, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Wall Street Corruption, Commodity Futures, Business News

Honest consumers, both businesses and individuals, it seems are perfect rubes to be ripped off by the unscrupulous members of Wall Street.

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Is This Speed Trader Killing Wall Street?

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Tower Research Capital, Wall Street, Sec, Mark Gorton, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Limewire, Flash Crash, High Frequency Trading, Business News

Mark Gorton is sitting in the Zen garden on the roof of his office in downtown Manhattan, squinting into the sunlight and telling me he's not evil. ...

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JPMorgan May Be Fined Over Lehman Demise

Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Video, Lehman Brothers, Reuters, Business News, Financial Crisis, Jpmorgan Chase Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Lehman Brothers Collapse, Business News

April 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. regulator is set to penalize JPMorgan for actions linked to the demise of investment bank Lehman Brothers at the height o...

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Major Bank Accused Of 'Trading Scheme Of Massive Proportion'

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Cftc Rbc Trading Scheme, Video, Rbc Trading Scheme, Reuters, Financial Crime, Business News, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Royal Bank of Canada, Trading Scheme, Cftc, Business News

* CFTC accuses RBC of "trading scheme of massive proportion" * RBC calls lawsuit "absurd", says CFTC reviewed trades * C...

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Obama's 'All-Of-The Above' Energy Policy Leaves Much Off The Table

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Russia, Rep. Alan Nunnlee, Energy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, President Obama, Alberta, Iran, St.Louis Federal Reserve, Keystone Pipeline, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Politics, Cushing Oklahoma, "All-of-the-Above" Energy Policy, West Texas Intermediate, Oil, Natural Gas, Rex Tillerson Chairman ExxonMobil, Brent Crude, Business News

What should have been said by our president is that this government is moving heaven and earth to convert our transportation fleet from gasoline and diesel to being powered by compressed natural gas.

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LIVE Q&A: Key Federal Regulator Explains Brutal Swings In Gas Prices

Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Gas, Video, Gasoline, Bart Chilton Cftc, Wall Street, Bart Chilton, Oil Prices, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gas Prices Bart Childton, Hplive, Cftc, Politics News

Gas prices have been climbing this year, putting the pinch on pocketbooks around the country and prompting a host of campaign promises from politician...

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Goldman To Pay Millions To Settle Charges

AP | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Business News, Goldman Sachs Cftc Charges, Goldman Sachs, Video, Goldman Sachs Cftc, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Goldman, Cftc, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs will pay $7 million to settle federal regulators' civil charges that its futures brokerage business failed to diligently s...

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Why Regulators Say They're 'Paralyzed'

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Video, Wall Street, Bart Chilton, Litigation, Reuters, Dodd-Frank Financial Reform, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Regulation, Lawsuit, Business News

By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - Some U.S. regulators are "paralyzed" by the threat of lawsuits from Wall Street...

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Finally President Obama Utters That Freighted Oil-Drenched Word "SPECULATION"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group, Politics, Oil Energy, Financial crisisEric Holder Attorney General, Speculation, Gasoline Prices, President Obama, Superman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Video, Oil Prices, Oil Speculation, Oil Speculators, Business News

This surprising aside while sermonizing us with the usual exculpatory rhetoric emanating from the White House that "...what I've said about gas prices is that there is no silver bullet ..." to high, ever higher gasoline prices.

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Why Rising Gas Prices Could Backfire on the GOP in November

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Oil Prices, Gas Prices, Ahmadinejad, President Obama, 2012 Presidential Campaign, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Speculation, Wall Street Reform, 2012 Elections, Dodd-Frank, Elections 2012, Politics News

The sight of Republicans rooting against America and hoping that rising gas prices will derail the economic recovery is not pretty.

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The Chicago Mafia and the Price You Are Paying for Gasoline

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Energy, Politics, William M. Daley, Oil and Gas Working Group, Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, President Obama, Oil, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Natural Gas, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Detroit, Business News

Chicago is to commodity trading what Wall Street is to financial markets. The world's most significant trading exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group is headquartered there and projects its power to influence institutions, the press and government.

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Republican Financial Regulator Goes Crying To OMB

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Conflicts of Interest, Conflict of Interest, Video, Dodd-Frank, Wall Street, Office of Management and Budget, Wall Street Reform, Regulation, Dennis Kelleher, Regulators, Scott O'malia, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Omb, Cftc, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a signal that partisan squabbling in the nation's capital may be reaching new levels of rancor, a key Republican regulator is pursuin...

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MF Global May Just Get Away With It

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Jon Corzine, MF Global Holdings, Mf Global Collapse, Video, Jon Corzine Mf Global, Mf Global Probe, MF Global, Business News, Mf Global Bankruptcy, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business News

It looks like MF Global might just get away with it. That's because prosecutors are having trouble figuring out what exactly "it" is. Even as a Ch...

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Ex-SEC Commissioner On Dodd-Frank: 'This Is Not A Recipe For Strong Regulation'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Roberta Karmel Dodd-Frank, Dodd-Frank Act, Video, Dodd-Frank, Financial Reform, Roberta Karmel, Roberta Karmel SEC, Sec, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Cftc, Financial Regulation, Business News

Dodd-Frank isn't stopping this baby from going under once again. That's according to at least one former commissioner of the Securities and Exchan...

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SIFMA Hypocritically Protests CFTC User Fee Plan

Barbara Roper | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Federal Budget, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Consumer Federation of America, Sifma, Cfa, Cftc, President Obama, Business News

I'm left to wonder, what is the source of SIFMA's sudden cost-consciousness? Because I don't seem to recall ever having heard the association express similar alarm over the costs to investors of the $20 billion or so Wall Street manages to scrape together for bonuses each year.

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An FDA for Wall Street's Risky Business

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Eric Posner, Cdos, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Derivatives, Fda, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Posner, Weyl, Glen Weyl, Business News

Are exotic financial derivatives as risky as untested prescription drugs? Two University of Chicago economists say possibly. As noted by economist Ste...

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