This bill may be on a fast track with a possible hearing and vote in the House Committee on Financial Services in June.
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Now the Senate's blueprint for corporate reform has won against a weaker bill from Michael Oxley, Republican chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services.
The SEC released the 120-page critique in response to a March request from Rep. Richard Baker , a member of the House Committee on Financial Services.
On August 2, at the invitation of chairman Ron Paul, I spoke on a panel before the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver his monetary policy report to Congress, first to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and then to the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.
Tuesday morning, the House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing on the future of financial services regulation.
And former Chancellor Alistair Darling will give his thoughts on bank regulation to the Joint Committee on the Draft Financial Services Bill.
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And Chancellor George Osborne and Treasury Minister Mark Hoban are before the Joint Committee on the Draft Financial Services Bill to discuss how to make us safe from a future banking crisis - that's at 3.45pm.
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The big accounting firms have gigantic PACs and, yes, they focus their fundraising efforts and revolving-door hiring practices (both internally and at the lobbying firms they hire) on key leadership positions in the Senate and House and on the banking and financial services committee (on both sides of the aisle).
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Also on Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on a similar bill to use TARP funds for automakers.
Capuano would be at home on the Banking and Financial Services Committee, where Kennedy served as ranking Democrat on the Housing subcommittee.
In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on February 11, Lewis said he had little involvement in the Merrill bonus plan.
The committee pressed Mr Agius on the Financial Services Authority's annual review of Barclays that said the bank was aggressive in its practices and misleading on bank stress tests.
That'll be the core of debate Tuesday, when Frank's House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing on the bill.
Next week the House Financial Services Committee will also hear on the question of regulation in the mortgage markets.
Earlier in his career he served in the general counsel's Office of the SEC and as counsel to the House Commerce Committee, where he worked on legislation involving the financial services industry.
Both the Switzerland-based Basel Committee on Banking Supervision1 (BCBS) and the Financial Services Authority2 (FSA) in the UK have recently made it clear that when relying on manual processes, desktop applications or key internal data flow systems such as spreadsheets, banks and insurers should have effective controls in place that are consistently applied to manage risks around incorrect, false or even fraudulent data.
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On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee begins two days of hearings with regulators and housing authorities to discuss a bill introduced by Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.
The bankruptcy examiner for Lehman Brothers, testifying Tuesday to the House Financial Services Committee, says regulators sat on their hands while Lehman Brothers took excessive risks that ultimately led to its demise.
On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed bills that would eliminate the advertising ban, raise the investor threshold to 1, 000 from 500, and remove restrictions on so-called crowd-funding (when entrepreneurs raise money from relatives or others who aren't SEC-accredited, within certain limits).
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Wednesday, Bernanke heads back to Capitol Hill, where he'll give his mandatory, semi-annual report on monetary policy to the House Financial Services Committee.
As a result, the Financial Services Committee, which organized under the Democrats on Jan. 31, 2007, passed the bill restructuring the regulation of Fannie and Freddie, specifically including all the increased powers that the Bush administration requested on March 28, 2007.
On Wednesday, Mr. Bernanke will address the House Financial Services Committee in day two of the Fed chief's semiannual monetary-policy address to Congress.
The response of some Republicans is to blame Massachussetts congressman and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank for putting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on a collision path with market reality.
Silbert sent a similar letter to Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, where Lay was scheduled to testify before a subcommittee on Tuesday.
The House Financial Services Committee will be looking to the future, holding a hearing Tuesday on proposed regulatory reforms.
Wednesday, when the House Financial Services Committee hauls in Paulson and Bernanke, expect the hearing to focus on executive compensation and mortgage debt relief.
Bankers and merchants pressed their case on Thursday in a hearing before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
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