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commodity futures trading commission loopholes
121 documents for commodity futures trading commission loopholes
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From the Garn St.-Germain Act of 1982 (substantially deregulating savings and loan institutions) to the Gramm-LeachBliley Act of 1999 (allowing combined commercial and investment baking) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (permitting largely unrestricted trading in derivatives), Congress relaxed the regulatory constraints that had housebroken the financial industry since the 1930s, while failing to establish effective oversight of custom derivatives. According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, the finance, insurance, and real-estate sector spent over $463 million on lobbying in 2009, the most ever.
...In 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission relaxed capital requirements for major investment ... Commission, have fought to close the loopholes in that draft bill, but the Senate bill introduced...
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On January 26, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (``proposal'' or ``Proposed Rules''), which establishes a position limits regime for 28 exempt and agricultural commodity futures and options contracts and the physical commodity swaps that are economically equivalent to such contracts. The Commission is adopting the Proposed Rules, with modifications.
... tighter restrictions, notably closing loopholes that allow potentially harmful speculative activit...
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The Obama administration will propose a new agency to protect consumers from the kinds of lending abuses that led to the collapse of financial markets worldwide, while consolidating the supervision of big banks under one agency in a regulatory overhaul plan to be announced Wednesday. President Obama will propose consolidating the consumer protection functions of the Federal Reserve Board and other federal agencies into the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), which will regulate consumer lending throughout the United States, guided by the principles of transparency, simplicity, fairness, accountability and access, senior administration officials said Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.
... risks from their sophisticated global trading operations, can be imposed administratively withou... of the Securities and Exchange Commission, whose mission and structure would remain intact, the official said. The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be charged with pplugging the loopholes in regulation of credit default swaps and other de...
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Preface - II. Original introduction - III. Designing an optimal regulatory system - A. Regulatory Objectives - B. Characteristics of an Optimal Regulatory System - C. Regulatory Strategies - D. Organization of the Regulatory System - IV. Canada’s regulatory system - A. Current Structure of Canada’s Regulatory System - B. Comments on Canada’s Regulatory System - V. Comparative analysis of the united kingdom, australia, united states, france, germany, the netherlands, and hong kong - A. The United Kingdom - B. Australia - C. The United States - 1. Current System - 2. Calls for Reform - 3. U.S. Treasury Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure - a) Market Stability Regulation - b) Prudential Regulation - c) Business Conduct Regulation - D. France - E. Germany - F. Hong ...
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When it comes to regulation of exotic financial instruments, the horse is not just out of the barn, it's over the hill and across town. So it's with some concern that we viewed an announcement from the President's Working Group on Financial Markets saying it would strengthen government oversight of derivatives trading and increase transparency.
... Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission woulld close loopholes in their oversight of such complex products as cre...
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When it comes to regulation of exotic financial instruments, the horse is not just out of the barn, it's over the hill and across town. So it's with some concern that we viewed an announcement from the President's Working Group on Financial Markets saying it would strengthen government oversight of derivatives trading and increase transparency.
... Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission woulld close loopholes in their oversight of such complex products as cre...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting regulations to implement certain provisions of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd- Frank Act). These regulations set forth reporting and recordkeeping requirements and daily trading records requirements for swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs). These regulations also set forth certain duties imposed upon SDs and MSPs registered with the Commission with regard to: Risk management procedures; monitoring of trading to prevent violations of applicable position limits; diligent supervision; business continuity and disaster recovery; disclosure and the ability of regulators to obtain general information; and antitrust considerations. In addition, these regul...
... defeat our good intentions and creates loopholes and perhaps unintentional safe-harbors, leaving ou...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Audrey Mullen, +1-703-548-1160, for JunkScience.com
... a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro and Commodity Futures Tradi... asking for an investigation into loopholes in the law which enable Goldman Sachs an unfair se...Milloy said, "If Congress enacts carbon trading through a cap- and-trade scheme, look for Goldman ...
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... Former SEC Commissioners and Officials and ... generally did so.2 The Funds' trading in CSX shares and CSX-referenced s... See infra note 6; Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106...-all methods of closing unforeseen "loopholes" that seek to use form to evade substance or to co...
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...-Frank), Congress has attempted to close loopholes in connection with the regulation of retail foreig..., as further discussed below, customer trading in "foreign ordinaries," i.e., equity securities e... attempted to address this situation in Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. This law gave t... is required to be registered with the Commission as an FCM, RFED, IB, CPO, or CTA in connection wit...
