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Basel Committee aims for two-year pause on major new rules
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SIFI process and OLA to be reviewed
President Donald Trump is quickly shredding any doubts over his determination to reform Dodd-Frank, having ordered a review of the orderly liquidation authority and the systemically important financial institutions designation process.
Financial choice act 2.0 would significantly alter Dodd-Frank
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Trump actively considering reviving Glass-Steagall Act
President Donald Trump revives idea of separating investment banking from retail operations within banks.
Quarles could replace Tarullo at the Fed
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European Commission ponders post-Brexit Euro-clearing rules
As the UK moves towards exiting the EU, the European Commission is examining how and where euro clearing should be regulated.
US universal banks should become smaller and more efficient
US regulators need to focus more on incentivising universal banks to become more efficient rather than driving capital requirements ever higher or ponder measures to break them up
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