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SEC Votes to Propose Stricter Broker Standards
By Dave Michaels
April 18, 2018, The Wall Street Journal
Stockbrokers would face tighter restraints on conflicts that can bias investment advice to customers, under a rule proposed Wednesday by …
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Fed’s Bank Regulator Defends Volcker, Lending Rule Easing
By Katanga Johnson and Michelle Price
April 17, 2018, Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump’s top banking regulator on Tuesday defended plans to ease lending rules and trading restrictions introduced following …
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Fed’s New Capital Buffer Refocuses on Risk
By Philip Alexander and Steve Marlin
April 17, 2018, Risk
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s proposed revisions to its capital framework would make risk-based capital requirements more volatile, bank analysts say, …
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The Biggest U.S. Banks Made $2.5 Billion from Tax Law — in One Quarter
By Michael Rapoport
April 17, 2018, The Wall Street Journal
Big banks just received the first installment of benefits corporate America will reap from the new federal tax law. The …
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Eurozone Investors Race Up Chart of U.S. Debt Owners
By Kate Allen
April 17, 2018, Financial Times
Eurozone investors have been the biggest overseas net buyers of U.S. debt securities in the past half-decade, a trend that could reverse …
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell Delivers Speech to the Economic Club of Chicago
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell delivers a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago at the Hilton.…
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U.S. Libor Replacement, Two Weeks After Debut, Has Some Issues
By Alex Harris
April 16, 2018, Bloomberg Markets
Two weeks after its debut, the presumptive heir to Libor in the U.S. is already running into some turbulence.
The Federal Reserve …
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Global Interest Rate Derivatives Contracts Reach Largest Number on Record
By Hayley McDowell
April 17, 2018, The Trade
The number of contracts traded globally for interest rate derivatives reached the highest number on record in 2017, according to statistics from …
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ECB’s Constancio Says He Fears U.S. Easing of Bank Capital Rules
By Alexander Weber
April 13, 2018, Bloomberg Markets
European Central Bank Vice President Vitor Constancio said he’s concerned that the U.S. could relax bank capital rules even further after the …
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Living in the Laboratory: Understanding the SEC’s Transaction Fee Pilot
By George Bollenbacher, Capital Markets Advisors
Originally published on the TabbFORUM
What has become clear is that almost nothing is clear about how fees and rebates impact both execution decision-making …
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