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Fed’s Tarullo warns that banking reforms are losing steam - The Washington Post
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U.S. Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo tells the Council on Foreign Relations that so much remains to be done four years after the financial crisis. The law firm of Davis Polk says 67 percent of deadlines were missed for new rules required to be set in place by the Dodd-Frank legislation, including the Volcker Rule. Tarullo said: "It is sobering to recognize that more than four years after the failure of Bear Stearns began the acute phase of the financial crisis, so much remains to be done." Tarullo fears that crucial momentum may be lost because of the long delays stemming from resistance by the banks. Tarullo met with bank CEO's in April 2012. Banks have protested that Fed stress tests have not revealed the parameters for the testing. Tarullo's response given at a recent Fed conference in Chicago were that this would let banks game the exercize by running the Federal Reserve model and not improving risk management and capital planning, making this a mechanical compliance exercize. Banks have particularly opposed a requirement that limits the risk in business between two banks to 10% of their credit risk.
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Not just "too big to fail" but too big to run.
10/01/2009
Bank of America is 10 times the size of Exxon. It has $2.3 trillion in assets.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/2013
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
Economist 10/08/2009
Economist 10/01/2009
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
Soul searching about the lack of changes to make the financial system safer after the 2008 global financial crisis
01/15/2010
Soul searching at the IMF, Britain's Financial Services Authority and among experts about the lack of serious changes or reforms in the financial system after the global financial crisis of 2008. Bondholders did not take a haircut in Ireland, and large banks are still "too big to fail." A sense that this could happen again.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street's Giants Try 'Flow Monster' Formula
Wall Street Journal 05/20/2013
GE Capital, AIG to Get More Government Oversight
Wall Street Journal 07/09/2013
Obama Presses Regulators to Finish Financial Rules
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
After a Financial Flood, Pipes Are Still Broken
New York Times 09/14/2013
Evidence of "Too Big To Fail" in the US Federal Reserve's 2008 Bailout Files
01/20/2009
Grouped Articles
GE Capital, AIG to Get More Government Oversight
Wall Street Journal 07/09/2013
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
Hedge Funds Tapped Rescue Program
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
Liquidity Facility Was Lifeline for Wall Street
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
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