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New York Times Reports that SEC Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions For Large Banks

The New York Times reports that even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street in the last decade, the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments specifically meant to apply to fraud cases.
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Friday, February 3, 2012

US Treasury Secretary Warns on Potential for “Undue Damage” of New Rules

In a speech discussing the state of US financial reform, Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, has stated that bank supervisors must be careful “not to overdo it with actions that cause undue damage to the availability of credit or liquidity to markets.”
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Friday, February 3, 2012

CFTC-SEC Release Joint Study on International Swap Regulation

Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have jointly conducted a study on how swaps and security-based swaps are regulated in the United States, Asia, and Europe.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report Calls for Incentives for Disclosure

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a Staff Report arguing that the existing regime for information disclosure is primarily one of compliance, and that to improve corporate governance, reforms should be directed toward providing incentives for disclosure, rather than mandating it.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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