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Sluggish PPIP pushes past $4.5 billion minimum private capital level
The US Treasury’s toxic mortgage-backed security (MBS) purchase scheme swelled to pass the $20 billion threshold in November, with private-sector asset managers committing more than $5 billion to the...
The US government's widespread use of asset guarantees has "rewritten the rules" of the financial system, exposing taxpayers to trillions of dollars in guarantees and creating significant moral hazard,...
Since his appointment last December, Tarp inspector Neil Barofsky has conducted a range of audits and investigations into sensitive issues – most recently condemning the US Treasury’s oversight of...
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Barofsky: US Treasury abdicated responsibility for AIG
The payment of retention bonuses at AIG Financial Products last year was the result of an “abdication of responsibility” by the US Treasury, says Neil Barofsky, the Washington, DC-based special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program...
End-users warn OTC regulation threatens hedging activity
Debate over legislation proposed by the US Treasury to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives market became more heated last month, as end-users of derivatives warned that greater standardisation of OTC contracts would increase costs and make the instruments...
World Bank calls for US Treasury to have more regulatory clout
The US Department of the Treasury, and not the Federal Reserve, should be handed greater regulatory authority, says World Bank president Robert Zoellick. Speaking in Washington, DC ahead of next week's annual meetings of the World Bank and the International...
Senate Banking Committee produces rival US regulatory reform bid
Senator Christopher Dodd, who heads the key Senate Banking Committee, is preparing his own design for producing a single super regulator from four existing bank supervisory bodies. The plan differs from the more modest proposals of Treasury Secretary...
Basel group agrees on banking crisis response
BASEL – The group of central bank governors and heads of supervision has met to discuss broad principles for a “comprehensive response to the global banking crisis”. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s oversight body met on September...
Iosco recommends further regulation of CDSs and securitisation
Greater regulation of securitisation and credit default swaps (CDSs) is needed as current industry initiatives may prove insufficient in fixing the problems in these markets, the Madrid-based International Organization of Securities Commissions’ (Iosco)...
ECB defends Basel II against US Treasury plans
Nout Wellink and Christian Noyer have rallied to Basel II’s defence against plans for a US-led replacement
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