NEW YORK -- City politicians are calling on federal regulators to start making use of a little-known provision in the sweeping financial reform bill p...
While Securities and Exchange Commission officials are fighting for a budget increase to deal with new duties put in place by the financial reform bil...
Republicans are taking aim at the "unintended consequences" of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, including the rule that limits bank's abilities t...
Nestled near the end of the Wall Street Reform Act is two and half pages of text that aim to bring much needed transparency to the oil industry. What impact will this law have? Uganda could provide a first test case.
Looming losses from ForeclosureGate qualify as the sort of systemic risk warranting the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks under the Financial Reform Bill.
Analysts see little to no chance of a full dismantling of the law meant to prevent a repeat of the 2007-2008 financial crisis that set off the worst U...
NEW YORK -- To keep taxpayers from having to bail out giant banks again, lawmakers faced two choices: design rules to try to prevent them from failing...
A GOP senator ripped into President Barack Obama at a meeting on Capitol Hill Tuesday, telling him he had "audacity" coming in and using Republican la...
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro's testimony before the House Committee on Financial Services turned explosive on Tuesday mor...
If you use a cell phone or computer, you're probably connected to the long-standing conflict in Eastern Congo. But this week, the President will sign into law the Financial Reform Bill, which contains a Congo-minerals related provision.
"Financial Reform" will be a boom for people in the payday loan business. There will be many new customers who need bank-like services. It's almost like Congress implemented a plan of "Reverse Robin Hood."
It's hard to believe that after all the speechifying and anguish, proposed "reforms" will not change much. The only hope is on two other fronts: the courts and the streets.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sens. Olympia Snowe and Scott Brown pushed sweeping financial legislation to the edge of final passage Monday, both announcing they...
Banks ahead, American taxpayers lagging behind. That's the disappointing reality here after the first week of Senate action on the financial reform bi...
A well-regarded lion of the regulatory world, Mr. Volcker had endorsed the legislation before he went fishing, but unenthusiastically. If he were a te...
The finance-reform bill Congress is likely to pass this summer won't eliminate the risk of failure for financial firms, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithne...
A simple majority of the Senate will be all that is required to adopt an amendment to Wall Street reform, if Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) gets ...
There are a lot of victories in this bill. We need to pass those victories into law. If the bill is defeated by pro-Wall Street forces over the next two weeks, the only parts which will be defeated are the victories.
Think about the position we would put some future administration and Congress in if the trends toward concentration remain unchecked. Will Washington ...