Word: banking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instead of sailing quietly into oblivion, Kaufman has decided to make waves. Most notably, he is challenging his Senate colleagues - and the Obama Administration - to get behind far tougher financial regulations than they have yet proposed, a move that has been unsettling to both bank lobbyists and White House aides. "I think most people know that I am really cranked up about this," Kaufman says with a smile...
...Little in these reforms is really new," Kaufman says of the current White House-backed Democratic Banking Committee plan. He calls the provisions for new "resolution authority" to dissolve failing banks "an illusion," since the sheer size of the institutions makes painless, prepackaged liquidation unlikely. He worries about loopholes that exempt certain highly profitable derivatives from federal oversight. But most of all, he believes the current Senate plan, which relies on the wisdom of bank regulators, won't prevent another crisis. "The sad reality is that regulators had substantial powers," he announced during another Senate-floor speech in March...
...White House has mostly avoided direct public engagement with its unlikely critic. On ABC's This Week recently, White House economic aide Larry Summers dodged a question about Kaufman's complaints. "Senator Kaufman is exactly right," he said instead, sympathizing with the concern about large bank failures. In fact, on whether to dismantle the largest banks, it would be hard for the two men to disagree more...
Although increased liquidity and bank recapitalization have led to a much more sound and secure financial system, Obama has yet to publicize these developments, to his own detriment. Just a year ago, there were talks of a potential second Great Depression, but the aggressive actions taken by the Fed and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have led financial analyst Richard Bove to conclude that “U.S. banks now have more capital as a percentage of assets than in any year since 1935.” Nevertheless, the perception remains that Washington is making all the wrong moves; critics...
...themselves." That may be an understatement. There are currently two other pending cases against the judge in addition to the one involving the Franco investigation. Garzón is also being investigated for dismissing financial misappropriation charges against Emilio Botín, the director of Banco Santandar, after the bank sponsored a course at New York University in which the judge was a participant. He's also being investigated for his allegedly inappropriate ordering of wiretaps in a national corruption probe...