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Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Occ, Derivatives, End Users, Barney Frank, Derivatives Reform, Chris Dodd, Collin Peterson, Big Banks, Cftc, Exclusive, Tbtf, Financial Crisis, Banks, Foreign Exchange, Gary Gensler, Business News

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

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Shahien Nasiripour

Derivatives Just "A Sophisticated Form Of Gambling," U.S. Senators Say; Propose Bill Allowing State Gambling Laws To Apply

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Ron Wyden, Cftc, Financial Reform, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Maria Cantwell, Derivatives Regulation, Preemption, Bernie Sanders, Financial Regulation, Gambling, Financial Crisis, Gary Gensler, Business News

In describing the complex and little-understood world of derivatives trading as "a sophisticated form of gambling," three U.S. Senators proposed legis...

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Barney Frank Reconsiders Derivatives Rules: "There May Be A Problem Here"

boston.com | Michael Kranish | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Derivatives Measure, Senator Maria Cantwell, Derivatives Rules, Americans for Financial Reform, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Derivatives Reform, Barney Frank, Derivatives Trading, Gary Gensler, Securities and Exchange Commission, Heather Booth, House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank Legislation, Business News

WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, under fire from some fellow Democrats and consumer groups for carving out what...

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Exceptions To Derivatives Trading Rule Dilute Regulation

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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Derivatives regulation has been on the nation's financial reform agenda for months. Undoing the Clinton-era law that exempted swaps from oversight is ...

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How to Regulate Derivatives: Barry Ritholtz

The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Phill Gramm, Financial Reform, Derivatives, Barry-Ritholtz, Alan Greenspan, Gary Gensler, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cftct, Business News

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...

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Top Derivatives Regulator: "We Haven't Filled The Gaps" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Derivatives, Office of Thrift Supervision, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gary Gensler, Cftc, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Gary Gensler, the top regulator of the commodities markets, sees the U.S. financial system still "vulnerable" to the murky world of privately negotiat...

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Obama Proposes New Derivatives Rules

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Derivatives, Over-the-Counter Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Commidity Futures Trading Commission, Securities Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday sent Congress legislation seeking to impose broad new oversight on derivatives, the complex fin...

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Government Considers Limits On Energy Trading, Faults "Excessive" Speculation

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy Trading Limits, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Energy Trading, Business News

WASHINGTON — With consumers hit by oil price swings, federal regulators may be moving toward imposing limits on speculative energy trading, whic...

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Gensler Confirmed as Head of the CFTC - Will He Be Watching Oil Prices?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Gary Gensler, The Senate, Financial Crisis, Finanacial Times, Oil, Oil and Gas Prices, Green Energy, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Energy Policy, Manipulation, Seculation, Speculation, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Gensler will have to move away from the agency's "head in the sand" policy of recent years, while defending commodity futures trading against accusations of undue influence.

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Ryan Grim

White House, Sanders In Talks Over Controversial Nomination

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

The White House and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, are in talks to resolve differences surrounding a controversial nomination to the Comm...

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Obama's Toxic Advisers

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Barack obama.economy, Goldman Sachs, Bailout, Treasury, Aig, Robert Rubin, Gary Gensler, Bernie Sanders, Business News
Robert Scheer

Like most Americans, I am eager for Obama to succeed, but I see the nomination of Gary Gensler as further evidence that the president has entrusted his economic policy to the wrong people.

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