All Rules & Proposals articles – Page 15
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House committee advances slate of financial bills to full chamber
The House Financial Services Committee has advanced a slate of bills for the consideration of the whole House. The total number of bills reported out of the Committee this Congress now total 99.
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House passes bill seeking end to cookie-cutter stress tests for non-banks
The House of Representatives garnered bipartisan support for legislation that would exempt non-bank financial institutions that are not under supervision by the Federal Reserve, but overseen by the SEC and CFTC, from stress tests.
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Warren presses Department of Defense to monitor contractors' workplace safety
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking military officials to update Congress on efforts to ensure that Department of Defense contractors are complying with federal worker protection laws.
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A deep dive into the Senate bill that chips away at the Dodd-Frank Act
On March 15, the Senate, under the leadership of Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, passed what he is calling “the most significant piece of regulatory reform legislation for community financial institutions in nearly a decade” with a bipartisan vote of 67 to 31.
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Pilfered data launches Facebook into a battle with regulators, legislators
Regulators and legislators are demanding answers from Facebook over how an international firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used the personal data of 50 million users without their consent to enable the psychological profiling used to sway election results.
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Early pay ratio filings show a disclosure demand in progress
As initial pay ratio disclosures hit the books, investors are finding some supplemental disclosures and thinking creatively about where to place the new data.
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Court strikes down Labor Department’s fiduciary rule—what’s next?
The Labor Department’s regulatory soap opera is facing another cliffhanger and an appeals court opinion that vacates it. But the story is far from over.
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SEC pitches changes to liquidity risk disclosures
The SEC is looking to amend liquidity-related disclosure requirements for certain open-end investment management companies. Under the proposal, funds would discuss, in their annual report, the effectiveness of their program.
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Post-breach, Equifax remains in a harsh spotlight
For a company embroiled in one of the nation’s largest data breaches, things have been relatively quiet in recent weeks on the Equifax front. That has changed with an insider trading charge, and inclusion in controversial Senate legislation.
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Senators urge NLRB to advance McDonald’s joint-employer case
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is leading a group of five senators who wrote to Peter Robb, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, requesting that he allow the trial in the McDonald’s joint-employer case to proceed so that a judge may rule on the fast food giant’s liability.
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Senators seek ties between Kushner loans, Citigroup, and Apollo Global Management
A team of senators and representatives is quizzing Citigroup and Apollo Global Management on reports that the companies provided more than $500 million in loans to the businesses of senior advisor to the president Jared Kushner.
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Bill seeks to save kids from identity theft
The Senate has advanced the Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act, bipartisan legislation that would augment the ability of financial institutions to prevent synthetic identity fraud, a scam involving stolen Social Security account numbers.
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Clearing House Association, Financial Services Roundtable combine forces
The Financial Services Roundtable and The Clearing House have announced plans to merge their non-partisan advocacy and research arms.
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ArticleSenate’s latest Dodd-Frank reforms get a bipartisan push, but divide Democrats
Bipartisan Senate legislation looks to scale back Dodd-Frank regulations on smaller banks, but critics contend that a rules rollback would benefit big banks more than anyone.
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NYSE to pay $14M for regulatory failures, violation of Reg SCI
The SEC has charged the New York Stock Exchange and two affiliated exchanges with regulatory failures in connection with several disruptive market events. The charges include include the first-ever charged violation of Regulation SCI.
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Voya advisers settle SEC charges they failed to disclose securities lending conflict
The SEC has charged investment adviser subsidiaries of Voya Holdings with failing to disclose conflicts of interest. They were also acused of misleading disclosures in connection with their practice of recalling securities on loan so affiliates could receive tax benefits.
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A mixed assessment of steel, aluminum tariff plan
President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum is drawing a wide range of domestic reactions, from joy to outrage, and skepticism that global surcharges could spark a trade war without truly targeting the problem of Chinese over-production.
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Fearing cooking oil monopoly, FTC torches Smucker/Wesson deal
Under pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, J.M. Smucker Co. has decided to drop its proposed acquisition of Wesson cooking oil from Conagra Brands.
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Volcker rule reforms afoot at Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve is “considering broad revisions to the Volcker rule compliance regime,” in addition to changes to make the rule easier to understand and less burdensome, says Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles.
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Labor Dept. encourages self-reporting of wage violations
The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor has announced a new initiative intended to encourage self-reporting of wage and hour violations.