Derivatives Regulation Could Cost J.P. Morgan $800M A Year: Study
The research firm estimated that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. could see annual revenues from its industry-leading derivatives business reduced by $3 billio...
The research firm estimated that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. could see annual revenues from its industry-leading derivatives business reduced by $3 billio...
David Segal | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
In its new regulations, the Fed did Americans a huge disservice, doing away with consumers' potential right of recovery of overdraft charges -- which will total nearly $37.5 billion in 2009 alone.
The New York Times | Eric Lipton | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
The radio business has nothing to do with the plan to overhaul the nation's system for regulating banks and other financial institutions. Except, it ...
nytimes.com | PETER BOONE and SIMON JOHNSON | Posted 11.26.2009 | Business
As legislation on restructuring the banking industry moves forward, attention on Capitol Hill is increasingly drawn to the issue of bank size. Should ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
If the White House and congressional leaders get their way, the vaunted new oversight council charged with overseeing systemic risk in the financial m...
Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Thursday, alongside author Naomi Klein, to discuss the Ron Paul/Alan Grayson bil...
Rob Johnson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Losses of wealth, lost employment and economic activity and bailouts totaling trillions of dollars around the world are strong evidence of the failed structures of financial markets in their current form.
Reuters | Kevin Drawbaugh | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional panel moved toward toughening a plan for dealing with "too big to fail" financial firms on Tuesday, wh...
Rep. Paul Kanjorski | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
The economic meltdown we narrowly averted last year rightfully convinced the American people that we need to re-examine the fundamental structure of our financial system. Naturally, Wall Street disagrees.
thenation.com | William Greider | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
The Obama administration promised to reform the financial system and make it safe for the rest of us, but recent Congressional action is more likely t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...
Thomas Frank | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Currently, oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
In describing the complex and little-understood world of derivatives trading as "a sophisticated form of gambling," three U.S. Senators proposed legis...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Scroll down to see how you can help HuffPost dig through Dodd's new bill. "This is not a time for timidity," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris ...
Patrice Hill | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
An unusual alliance of conservatives and liberals is pushing to break up or downsize banks deemed "too big to fail," rather than create a new regulato...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Members of Congress and the general public may not be told of "potential emerging threats to the stability of the financial system," thanks to a Thurs...
forbes.com | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
Although the G-20 finance ministers pledged stronger prudential regulation and financial oversight of systemically important firms at their September ...
wsj.com | DAMIAN PALETTA | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- A key Senate lawmaker is readying legislation that would dramatically redraw how the financial system is regulated, setting the chamber ...
businessinsider.com | John Carney | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
Famed hedge fund manager and short seller Jim Chanos recently gave a presentation at the University of Virginia's Value Investing Conference and the Y...
Dean Baker | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
The only people who seem to stand outside the consensus that too-big-to-fail banks are unacceptable are those who hold power and are steering the process of financial reform.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
The White House is quietly working to undercut a key post-Enron reform, significantly weakening protection for everyday investors and threatening the ...
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Women like Brooksley Born have a long history of being whistle-blowers in systems dominated by men. Perhaps this time Congress -- and the American people -- will listen.
Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
The head of the country's second-biggest bank, considered by many to be "too big to fail," said Tuesday that no firm should be immune from failure. ...
Crain's New York Business | Aaron Elstein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business