All Volcker rule articles – Page 2

  • Article

    Volcker Compliance Deadline Creeps Up

    2015-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Image: For all the political controversy still surrounding the Volcker Rule, its biggest compliance obligation—implementing new controls and training to root out forbidden trading—has a looming deadline in July. “You’ve got to build an infrastructure,” says David Freeman of the law firm Arnold & Porter. “That’s a bigger effort than ...

  • Blog

    Volcker Offers Sweeping New Reform Ideas

    2015-04-20T11:45:00Z

    Image: Paul Volcker, the famed former Fed chairman and namesake of the most controversial rule in the Dodd-Frank Act, is proposing a slate of financial reform proposals that would merge the SEC and CFTC and create new regulatory agencies. The Volcker Alliance—a non-partisan, non-profit organization launched in 2013—issued a report ...

  • Blog

    Republicans Move on Volcker Rule, XBRL

    2015-01-14T14:00:00Z

    The new Republican majority in Congress launched its first strike against the Dodd-Frank Act last Wednesday, passing a bill that offers banks a semi-reprieve from the Volcker Rule and exempts small companies from filing financial statements tagged in XBRL. The legislation now moves to a Senate vote and is likely ...

  • Blog

    Fed Extends Deadlines for Volcker Rule Compliance

    2014-12-19T14:15:00Z

    The Federal Reserve Board is giving financial insitutions more time to comply with the Volcker rule’s demand that they extricate themselves from investments in hedge funds and private equity funds and wind down speculative positions held on their own behalf, rather than for clients. Banks will until 2017 to unwind ...

  • Blog

    OCC’s Curry Details Regulatory Relief for Small Banks

    2014-12-02T17:00:00Z

    Image: In a recent speech, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry floated some regulatory reforms that could make compliance easier for small- and medium-sized banks, including a new examination cycle for healthy banks. “It’s important that they, like other businesses, have the flexibility to adapt to changing economic and ...