Gary Gensler

Wall Street Reform: Taking a Knife to a Gunfight

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.24.2012

Sanjay Sanghoee

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.

D.M. Levine

"Outgunned"

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

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...

Ex-Wall St. Trader Imprisoned For Threatening To 'Kill' Top Regulator

Posted 04.10.2012

You might think that being a top financial regulator is a dry job, or that it’s never dangerous. You might then be wrong. Vincent McCrudden,...

Regulator Adopts New Rules In Aim To Prevent Another MF Global-Like Collapse

Reuters | Posted 03.12.2012

* CFTC finalized next slate of Dodd-Frank rules * Measures include protecting customer collateral, Volcker rule * Gensl...

MF Global Revelations Keep Getting Worse

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 04.02.2012

Janet Tavakoli

How long does it take to find more than $600 million to $1.2 billion of customers' money? MF Global's books seem so messed up that one person couldn't have created this chaos alone.

CFTC Chairman Gensler Says He'd Be 'Distraction' In MF Global Probe

AP | By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY and DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 01.07.2012

NEW YORK -- A regulator says he withdrew from an investigation of Jon Corzine's collapsed securities firm to avoid being a "distraction." Gary Gensle...

Top Regulator Decides Against Participating In MF Global Review

Posted 01.05.2012

WASHINGTON (Christopher Doering) - The head of the U.S. futures regulator working on a sweeping review into the business practices of failed futur...

SEC Chair Says Cuts Could Have 'Profound Impact' On Agency

The New York Times | BEN PROTESS | Posted 07.05.2011

Financial regulators asked lawmakers on Wednesday for more money to enforce dozens of new rules and oversee Wall Street. ...

Ryan Grim

Leahy Presses Obama To Name Key Reformer To Swaps Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is lobbying President Obama to appoint Sean Cota, a Vermont business owner and an advocate of the regulation ...

Money Manager Accused Of Threatening To Kill 47 Regulators

Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK, Jan 14 (By Jonathan Stempel) - A New York money manager with a long history of legal battles with the government has been charged with threa...

Government Regulator Crafts New Derivatives Rules With Outside Help

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Blumenthal

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been tasked, along with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with setting new rules governing the transparent trading of derivatives for the first time.

Who Will Replace Larry Summers? The Possible Candidates To Head White House Economic Team (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

As pundits produce unofficial lists of candidates to replace top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers -- who will leave the White House to re...

Elizabeth Warren and the Definition of 'Controversial'

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

David Sirota

Over the last few days, Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have made the case that Harvard professor and Congressional...

Obama's Last Test

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Cenk Uygur

If in a year Elizabeth Warren and Gary Gensler are gone, then you know that financial reform was all a sham. You'll know the character of Obama by the people he chooses. And you'll also know the economic fate of our country.

Wall Street Reform Bill Could Be a Big Win for the Farm Belt

Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011

Mary Bottari

In a big win for American farmers, consumers and even import-reliant African nations, the Wall Street reform bill winding its way though Congress has unique provisions that apply to food and energy speculation.

Shahien Nasiripour

EXCLUSIVE: Two Leading House Dems Will Close $50 Trillion Loophole In Derivatives Reform Bills

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.18.2009

The two House Democrats shepherding derivatives reform proposals through Congress will close an existing $50 trillion loophole for foreign currency co...

'Accountants' and Lawyers' Welfare Act of 2010': Financial Reform Rife With Loopholes

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama and leading Democrats are calling the "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" the greatest overhaul of Wall Street since ...

Shahien Nasiripour

Gary Gensler, Top Regulator, Says Some Derivatives Should Be Illegal

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

In a move that could rattle Wall Street and upset bank-friendly Democrats, the top federal regulator overseeing much of the derivatives market says th...

Mary Schapiro: Trading Rules Need 'More Clarity'

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission will propose new rules covering cancellation of trades in the wake of the May 6 stock market...

AP: U.S. Warns EU That A Derivatives Ban Won't Work

AP | LESLIE PATTON | Posted 05.25.2011

BRUSSELS — Europe's threat to ban the sort of financial derivatives trading that some blame for worsening Greece's debt crisis wouldn't work, a ...

Gary Gensler of the CFTC: Reformer or Wolf in Moth Eaten Sheep's Clothing?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

While Gary Gensler and his CFTC Vaudeville act continue to fiddle away, their distortion in oil prices is burning a billion dollar hole a day in American consumers pockets.

Gary Gensler, Former Goldman Partner, Leads Derivatives Reform Effort As CFTC Chair

nytimes.com | GRAHAM BOWLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Former Goldman Partner Gary Gensler, Graham Bowley writes, is "emerging as one of the nation's archreformers, pushing to impose some of the most strin...

Credit-Default Swaps

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Steven Mufson | Posted 05.25.2011

Europe moved ahead of the United States on Tuesday in advocating new measures to ban certain types of financial speculation after concerns surfaced th...

Defusing "Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction"

Jason Paez | Posted 05.25.2011

Jason Paez

Buying a five year naked CDS is like buying life insurance on a stranger. It is not legal for individuals and should be treated similarly for companies.

How to Regulate Derivatives: Barry Ritholtz

The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 05.25.2011

Any plan that seeks to reverse the unregulated wild west that derivatives have existed in since 2000 must have a simple beginning: Repeal the Commodit...