Financial Regulatory Forum

By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – A senior U.S. Democratic senator said on Tuesday 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 power.

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By Karey Wutkowski

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. bank regulators are expected to propose Tuesday that banks prepay three years of regular assessments to replenish the dwindling deposit insurance fund, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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By Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Powerful U.S. lawmaker Barney Frank bowed to some of the financial industry’s demands and softened parts of his bill to create an agency to protect consumers from risky financial products, according to a copy of the draft bill first obtained by Reuters on Friday.

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WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators will meet next week to discuss how to rebuild the deposit insurance fund, which has been depleted by a sharp increase in bank failures, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said in an agenda notice on Wednesday.

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By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – U.S. bank regulators plan to meet next week to propose options for replenishing the insurance fund used to safeguard bank deposits, including tapping a line of credit with the Treasury Department.

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By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate’s top legislator on financial regulation favors reducing the number of bank supervisory agencies more sharply than the Obama administration proposes, said a senior Senate aide on Sunday.

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WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – U.S. bank regulators will meet at the end of the month to explore options, possibly including some that are not well-known, to replenish the dwindling fund that safeguards bank deposits, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Friday.

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By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp has selected a Texas-based mortgage servicer as the first buyer in a test of its program aimed at cleansing toxic loans from banks’ balance sheets.
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By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Wednesday proposed two alternatives to phase out a government program that guarantees certain debt issued by banks.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp voted to put out for public comment one approach that would have the program expire on Oct. 31, as planned. It also proposed to have the program expire on that date but to establish a limited six-month emergency guarantee program that would be available to institutions suffering from market disruptions beyond their control.

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Sept 1 (Reuters) – A single regulator for all U.S. banks is not the solution to streamline the financial regulatory system, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Sheila Bair wrote in an opinion column in the New York Times.
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