Financial Regulatory Forum

    WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – A top U.S. senator said on Tuesday that he is moving forward with his effort to consolidate bank supervision into a single federal regulator, despite criticism from current bank regulators who do not want to lose their authorities.
   “It’s clear that we need to end charter shopping, where institutions look around for the regulator that will go easiest on them,” said Christopher Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
   Dodd’s plan would consolidate the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision into one regulator. It would also strip direct bank supervision powers from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and the Federal Reserve, transferring those powers to the new regulator. (Reporting by Karey Wutkowski, editing by Gerald E. McCormick) ((E-mail:karey.wutkowski@thomsonreuters.com +1 202 898 8374)) Keywords: FINANCIAL/REGULATION BANKS 
  
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   By Sumeet Desai and Chris Buckley
   PITTSBURGH, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The Group of 20 will become the forum for global economic management, giving rising powers such as China more clout, and roll out tougher rules on bank capital by the end of 2012, a draft communique said on Friday. (more…)

By Kevin Drawbaugh
PITTSBURGH, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Banks would have to bulk up on capital and slim down on bonuses under a conditioning plan recommended on Friday at the G20 summit by world leaders seeking to avert future financial crises.

Whether member nations of the international body get with the program remains to be seen. The G20 has no lawmaking power, but it sets the tone for institutions that do. (more…)

By Simon Rabinovitch and John O’Donnell
BEIJING/BRUSSELS, Sept 23 (Reuters) – China offered some support on Wednesday to U.S. plans to build a more balanced global economy, as world leaders seek to agree ways to nurture a tentative recovery and prevent future crises.
The European Union unveiled its blueprint for an overhaul of the way banks and financial markets are policed, with plans for a banking super-watchdog and a pan-European supervisor that it hopes can be replicated on the global stage.

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By Jan Strupczewski
BRUSSELS, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The European Union will support maintaining policies that poured trillions of dollars into economies and call on a G20 meeting for progress on trade talks to help boost a recovery, a draft policy document said.

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By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Decreasing the number of U.S. agencies that police banks is an idea gaining momentum in Congress, even though bolder efforts to rip up the overall financial regulatory system and start fresh have stalled.

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By David Lawder and Patrick Rucker
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday sent Congress a plan that would consolidate two federal bank regulators in a move it said would help prevent lenders from seeking the loosest oversight. (more…)