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Basel Regulators Said to Scrutinize Banks’ ‘Flawed’ Risk Models

June 29th, 2011 Comments off

Global banking regulators are turning their attention to how firms measure the riskiness of their assets amid criticism firms’ calculations are inconsistent
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Dimon Challenges Bernanke in Wall Street Bid to Tame Regulators

June 9th, 2011 Comments off

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon’s public questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on bank regulatory costs has “thrown down the gauntlet” in the industry’s increasingly aggressive fight to curb higher capital requirements and other rules.
BusinessWeek.com — Finance

Dimon Challenges Bernanke in Wall Street Bid to Tame Regulators

June 9th, 2011 Comments off

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon’s public questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on bank regulatory costs has “thrown down the gauntlet” in the industry’s increasingly aggressive fight to curb higher capital requirements and other rules.
BusinessWeek.com — Finance

Durbin Vows to Fight Republican Funding Cuts for Regulators

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, the deputy majority leader, said he would “do my best” to fight Republican efforts to cut funding for regulatory agencies including the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
BusinessWeek.com — Finance

Starving the Regulators

February 11th, 2011 Comments off

The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are in a severe budget squeeze, and layoffs may be the only answer
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Bank Chiefs Meeting in Davos Profess Harmony With Regulators

January 29th, 2011 Comments off

The chief executive officers of Bank of America Corp., Deutsche Bank AG, UniCredit SpA, Prudential Plc and dozens of their peers emerged from a closed-door meeting with policy makers in Davos today saying the group has forged common ground.
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Colorado’s United Western Among 4 U.S. Banks Shut by Regulators

January 21st, 2011 Comments off

United Western Bancorp’s Denver- based lender with more than $ 2 billion in assets was seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision, the largest of four U.S. banks shut down today.
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Regulators Close Florida, Arizona Banks in First 2011 Failures

January 8th, 2011 Comments off

U.S. banking regulators shuttered two lenders, one each in Florida and Arizona, as the banking crisis enters its fourth year.
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