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As a North Carolina congressman, Mel Watt has tried to arm struggling homeowners with a legal “sledgehammer” against lenders and expand the ranks of people eligible to cut their mortgage principal.
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A Wall Street regulator is considering new rules to shine light on dark trading after the largest U.S. dark pool operator stopped sharing data on the volume of its trades.
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Chairman Gary Gensler’s recusal from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s investigation into the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd. was unnecessary and wasn’t required by ethics rules, according to the agency’s internal watchdog.
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Top executives of the two largest U.S. derivatives exchanges say regulators must take further steps to align Dodd-Frank Act rules with those of foreign counterparts to avoid oversight splits that could harm markets.
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Judd Gregg, the former U.S. senator who has been an adviser to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was named chief executive officer of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Wall Street’s largest lobby group.
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Policy makers should examine the prominence of advisory firms in corporate elections and consider whether regulations give them preferential roles in the process, a top U.S. securities regulator said.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the world’s largest banks won rollbacks in final Dodd-Frank Act rules that promise to transform the private swaps market by increasing competition.
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Jules Kroll, a former private investigator who started a bond-rating company after the financial crisis, said the largest credit-rating firms are again putting profits ahead of accuracy amid record demand for corporate debt.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has questioned three more federal agencies’ enforcement practices by asking if they’ve studied the costs of favoring settlements with big financial firms over taking them to trial.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shouldn’t encourage the creation of a separate stock exchange for small public companies, the head of NYSE Euronext told an SEC advisory committee today.
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