The ‘Volcker Rule’ was created in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis and barred banks from making profit-seeking trades with customer funds. In a significant development, the Federal Reserve stated, it has approved a final rule which simplifies the… Read More ›
Volcker Rule
U.S. regulators propose rewriting and simplification of financial rules
The proposal aims to simplify and ease some of the overreaching aspects of the rule which places undue and excessive burden on financial compliance. With the Federal Reserve, along with other U.S. regulators, proposing to rewriting the “Volcker Rule” that… Read More ›
Trump Administration looking for ways to simplify rules governing financial oversight
Their implementation and interpretation by five different agencies have caused much concern in financial circles thus the current review. With U.S. financial regulators discussing the Volcker rule concerning speculative trading by banks, Wall Street’s biggest concern appears to have gained… Read More ›
U.S. Federal Reserve fines Deutsche Bank $156.6 million for violating forex rules
Transcript of traders communicating in online chat rooms, which had led Deutsche Bank to settle in an earlier probe by Brazil’s antitrust watchdog Cade in December, show that banks had worked together to manipulate forex rates. The U.S. Federal Reserve… Read More ›