U.S. regulators
Volcker rule to be refined, not scrappedPosted by RJ and Makay on Jan 23, 2012 |
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U.S. Regulators told lawmakers last week that they will adjust prohibitions on banks’ proprietary trading per Volcker rule restrictions, but will resist calls to altogether drop the measure that sprang from the Dodd-Frank Act. Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, along with top officials from four other agencies, defended the rule at a House Financial Services joint subcommittee hearing in Washington.
U.S. regulators have proposed a $50 billion asset level as the threshold for non-bank firms such as insurance companies, mutual funds and other big financial institutions to qualify as systematically important financial institutions (SIFIs) and come under additional regulatory scrutiny. This is the same asset threshold that large banks face from Dodd-Frank ‘Too Big to Fail’ legislation.
