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DFA and Volcker rule (Proprietary Trading)
Federal Regulators in the United States are moving ahead with a rule that would ban banks from trading for their own profit.
This rule – popularly known as Volcker Rule – is covered under Section 619 of Dodd Frank Act and contains two broad...
DFA and Federal regulation of the derivatives market
Title VII of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act address the gap in U.S. financial regulation of OTC derivatives by providing a comprehensive framework for their regulation.
The Dodd-Frank Act divides regulatory authority...
DFA and Standards and rules for the mortgage business
Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending (Title XIV of DFA) will be administered by the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The relevant section focuses on standardizing data collection for underwriting and imposes obligations on...
DFA and Federal oversight of the insurance industry
Insurance companies that own or operate a savings & loan will face fresh oversight from the Federal Reserve Board, which is creating a process by which to examine those financial institutions that have significant banking assets.
According...
DFA and Financial Stability Oversight Council
As established under the Dodd-Frank Act, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) will provide, for the first time, comprehensive monitoring to ensure the stability of financial system in US.
The Council is charged with identifying threats...
DFA and Orderly Liquidation Authority
The Dodd-Frank Act provided important new authorities to the FDIC to resolve Systemically Important Financial Institutions.
Prior to the recent crisis, the FDIC’s receivership authorities were limited to federally insured banks and thrift...
DFA and Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is the Federal Agency that is entrusted with primary responsibility for ensuring consumer protection.
It was founded as per the Dodd Frank Act mandate and began operations on 21st July 2011. This Bureau...
‘Fair play’ by credit rating agencies is the need of the hour
In the recently held G20 deliberations, there was a call for ending what is called mechanistic reliance on credit rating agencies and encouraging transparency and competition among them.
The debate on credit rating agencies is increasingly becoming...
Need to revisit ‘trade repositories’ our new financial markets infrastructure
No one knows exactly what the problems afflicting financial markets today. Hence, we should not be in a hurry to fix solutions beforehand and create new institutions / intermediaries / infrastructures just to make things comfortable, desirable...
Current trends in Structured Products markets
Structured products are customized to meet specific needs that cannot be met from the standard products available in the markets and a large number of them are derivative products. They are highly multifaceted and interlinked and hence carry...
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