Fox Business - The Power to Prosper
Search Site

Dodd Frank Bank Reform Bill

Related Topics

  1. Financial Reform
  2. Raj Rajaratnam
  3. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  4. The Volcker Rule
  5. Volcker Rule
  6. Richard Cordray
Get updates on Dodd Frank Bank Reform Bill
Ex-strategist can sue UBS as whistleblower: U.S. judge

UBS AG lost a bid Tuesday to dismiss a whistle-blower lawsuit by a former commercial mortgage-backed securities strategist who said he was fired for refusing to publish misleading research reports.U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan found that Trevor Murray, who was fired in February 2012, could move forward with his case. Murray alleges that after he complained to superiors, the Swiss bank retaliated against him in violation of the Dodd-Frank Act.The ruling was one of a handful to date to address the scope of the whistleblower provisions of Dodd-Frank, the 2010 law enacted in response to the U.S. financial crisis.UBS argued the Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions did not apply to Murray as he only complained to people at UBS and not the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.But Furman cited rules adopted by the SEC in 2011 interpreting the Dodd-Frank law as extending the law's anti-retaliation provisions to protect individuals whose disclosures were made under the earlier ...

Read More ›

  1. Dimon Seen Leaving JPM If Dual Role is Split

    JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) chief executive Jamie Dimon will leave the big bank if he loses a key shareholder vote next week that would strip him of a chunk of his power, s...

  2. Donations, lobbying by high-speed traders on the rise: report

    High-frequency trading firms increased their campaign contributions to federal lawmakers by 673 percent from the 2008 to the 2012 election cycle, according to a repo...

  3. Bernanke Calls for End of 'Too-Big-to-Fail'

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke minced no words Friday on the issue of "too-big-to-fail" banks, saying financial institutions large enough to threaten global e...

  4. Bernanke: More May Be Needed On Too Big To Fail

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in the question-and-answer session after his speech Friday, said it was important to end the "too big to fail" perception for ...

  5. Goldman cuts investment fund pledges in half since Dodd -Frank -filings

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc has slashed its capital pledges to investment funds by nearly half since the Volcker rule was signed into law in 2010, as it prepares its pri...

  6. Too-big-to-fail Rules Need Work: Fed's Plosser

    Current rules about handling troubled too-big-to-fail financial institutions are insufficient, with too much discretion in the hands of regulators and more standardi...

  7. Senators Want Dodd -Frank Exemption

    A bipartisan group of 12 senators is seeking to exempt non-financial companies from new rules to make banking safer, breathing new life into efforts to reduce the sc...

  8. U.S. brings charges in first criminal case for consumer agency

    Federal authorities announced fraud charges against a debt settlement company on Tuesday, in the first criminal case based on work by the new Consumer Financial Prot...

  9. Little stopping fire sales in key short-term funding market: Fed paper

    Next to nothing stands in the way of a destabilizing fire sale in a vast part of U.S. financial markets if a dealer were to default, top Federal Reserve researchers ...

  10. Can the Bitcoin Craze Outlast Looming Hurdles?

    Riding the Cyprus bailout wave, Bitcoin catapulted into the financial spotlight this year, but the turbulent virtual currency still faces daunting regulatory, securi...

  11. Report: CFTC Exploring Bitcoin Regulation

    The Commodities Futures Trading Commission is reportedly 'seriously' exploring whether volatile cyber currency Bitcoin may fall under the U.S. regulator's purview.Th...

  12. States urge SEC to halt forced investor arbitrations

    State securities regulators on Friday urged the SEC to prohibit Wall Street brokerages from requiring customers to settle legal disputes through arbitration, which p...

  1. Lew Urges Delay On Bill To Limit Big Banks

    Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urged senators to delay bringing forward a measure to limit too-big-to-fail banks until after the Dodd-Frank legislation has been fully ...

  2. Goldman Sachs Chief Confident Euro Will Survive

    The chief executive of Goldman Sachs (GS), Lloyd Blankfein, is confident the euro will survive despite the debt crisis, he said in an interview with newspaper Welt a...

  3. Analysis: High speed trading a stiff challenge for U.S. regulators

    Financial trading in world markets has grown so lightning-fast that effective regulation is growing tougher by the second, increasing the threat of crashes sparked b...

  4. Goldman Sachs Chief Confident Euro will Survive - Report

    The chief executive of Goldman Sachs (GS), Lloyd Blankfein, is confident the euro will survive despite the debt crisis, he said in an interview with newspaper Welt a...

  5. SEC Can Fund Itself; Why Doesn't It?

    Between hedge fund moguls Steven A. Cohen and Raj Rajaratnam, and banking giants Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Citigroup (NYSE:C) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), the Secur...

  6. Fitch Affirms Ratings on 12 Global Banks

    Fitch Ratings affirmed its credit ratings on 12 global banks as part of a periodic review, while raising its viability rating on Bank of America Corp. (BAC) on the "...

  7. U.S. regulator to vote on watered-down swap rules

    Big banks are set to gain key concessions as the top U.S. derivatives regulator meets to vote on watered-down rules for swap trading that will chip away at Wall Stre...

‹ Prev12345…Next ›
Freebase CC-BY
Source: Dodd Frank Bank Reform Bill on Freebase, licensed under CC-BY
Other content from Wikipedia, licensed under the GFDL