Likewise, Section 1504 of the United States 2010 Dodd Frank Act contains rules on transparency in the extractive industry.

The passage of the Dodd Frank Act by Congress represents a significant milestone in the reform of the US financial sector.

Under Dodd Frank, it is arguably easier for the FDIC to handle the failure of a single large financial institution than it was in pre Dodd Frank days.

There's the Dodd Frank Act, there's the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency that is temporarily being headed through the backdoor by Elizabeth Warren.

In the United States, the Dodd Frank Act moves some of the way in this direction, and similar efforts are underway in Europe.

Say what you will about the Dodd Frank Act of 2010, but it is weak soup by the standards of the 1930 s.

There's the Dodd Frank Act, there's the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency that is temporarily being headed through the backdoor by Elizabeth Warren.

Second, the Dodd Frank Act represents a huge step forward in improving regulation of both individual financial institutions and the system as a whole.

The Dodd Frank Act of 2010 may turn out to be a framework for effective regulation, or it might become another set of empty promises.

But what do we have three years after the financial crisis began? To be sure, America has the 2,000 page Dodd Frank Act to show for its efforts.

The recent Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is 848 pages, and requires regulatory agencies to produce several hundred additional documents giving even more detailed rules.

Meanwhile, the financial industry is pushing the talks as a way to overturn the pesky and highly effective rules being implemented in the US under the Dodd Frank Act.

The US Dodd Frank legislation, enacted in 2010, did (weakly) cap the size of future bank mergers.

In the United States, the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and new initiatives to monitor the safety of financial products, could alter the architecture of finance.

The Dodd Frank Act of 2010 introduced a measure somewhat similar to the Glass Steagall prohibition by imposing the Volcker Rule, which bars proprietary trading by commercial banks, but much more could be done.

The Dodd Frank Financial Reform Bill, which is about to pass the US Senate, does something similar and long overdue for banking.

The Dodd Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have prevented a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.

Two years ago, during the debate about the Dodd Frank financial reform legislation, few people thought that global megabanks represented a pressing problem.

Now, however, a new form of antitrust arrives in the form of the Kanjorski Amendment, whose language was embedded in the Dodd Frank bill.

LONDON Even after the passage of new financial regulations in the United States, the Dodd Frank Act, and the publication of the Basel Committee s new capital requirements, the financial sector s prospects over the next few years remain highly uncertain.

The US Congress had a chance to fix this design defect in the major financial overhaul that it enacted last summer via the Dodd Frank bill.

The biggest banks now account for an even larger share of the financial sector after benefiting from a government rescue, while efforts like the Dodd Frank Act to legislate more constraints on banks have been lobbied into shadows of their original selves.

The US Congress had a chance to fix this design defect in the major financial overhaul that it enacted last summer via the Dodd Frank bill. But it didn t.

Even the strongest supporters of the Dodd Frank reform legislation emphasize that it only went part way towards reducing the incentives for major financial institutions to take big risks.

The panellists will include Ms. Jo Marie Griesgraber, Chairperson, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition Mr. Randall Dodd, Director, Financial Policy Forum and Mr. Frank Schroeder, Senior Economist, Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

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The Dodd Frank financial reforms created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so that privately issued financial products would serve the public better, and created incentives for derivatives to be traded on public markets.

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Against this backdrop of programmatic unity, the difference of opinion among leading Democrats concerning Wall Street both the specifics of the 2010 Dodd Frank financial reforms and more broadly stands out in bold relief.

These megabanks are making a determined attempt to repeal as much of Dodd Frank as possible, and the House Republicans seem keen to help them. This is not an issue that will fade away.

In the past, they have simply gone for the campaign contributions, doling out access and influence in exchange. It is now obvious that this is not consistent with defending what remains of Dodd Frank.

I would not be so sure. The main problem is that the Fed has not moved with alacrity to implement fully key provisions of the Dodd Frank financial reforms, which were passed in 2010.

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The only reasonable alternative is to make large, complex financial institutions smaller and less complex so that it is possible for them to fail under standard bankruptcy rules. This is the intent of Dodd Frank.

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Even as the United States voluminous Dodd Frank bill tried to ensure that bankers never subjected American taxpayers to undue risk again, public attention had moved on to the state of the real economy and unemployment.

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