Financial Regulatory Forum

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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By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – Senior U.S. financial regulators defended their turf in remarks to be delivered on Friday at a congressional hearing on the Obama administration’s sweeping regulatory reform agenda. (more…)

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) -  The Obama administration sent proposed legislation to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday which would put the Federal Reserve in charge of policing in charge of overseeing large, interconnected financial firms and “big picture,” or systemic, financial risk in the economy. (more…)

    By Marcin Grajewski and Huw Jones
   BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Germany wants to relax global rules on capital charges to ease writedown pressures on banks holding toxic assets, an EU document showed on Wednesday.
   European Union finance ministers meet next week and will be asked to endorse a report from their Economic and Financial Committee on how to stop rules amplifying market turmoil. (more…)