Both Middle Eastern and Western banks spend much time analyzing Islamic financial law these days, as they create instruments that comply with religious rules.
Before Dodd-Frank, the high-cost designation only applied to loans for refinancing, but the financial law expanded it to apply to loans for purchases as well.
The Dodd-Frank financial law broadened the rules instituted in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gave companies the power to recoup pay from top executives after a financial restatement or certain misconduct.
The Dodd-Frank financial law runs a brisk 2, 300 pages.
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The most economically damaging source of regulatory constraint is in finance, thanks not just to the Dodd-Frank financial law (which many Republicans want to repeal) but a panoply of state, federal and global actions.
His main job at the outset will be helping the Treasury to build an office of financial research, created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law to mine market data for threats to financial stability.
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The solution that Congress adopted for credit-rating agencies in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law has two elements.
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The financial reform law is hitting small community banks with big regulatory hurdles.
Mr Monti has said he will try to pass a budget and financial stability law before the 2013 elections.
So it omits, for example, some 259 rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank financial reregulation law along with its 188 other rule suggestions.
The hundreds of new rulemakings that are part of the new financial regulatory law create too much uncertainty for business, Josten says.
The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law that was adopted two year ago included a measure that cut in half the interchange fees on debit cards.
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Plus banks are unlikely to get specifics anytime soon from the federal government on implementation of key provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
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Another challenge he faces is dealing with the outcome of tighter regulation in the imminent financial reform law, which is aimed squarely at protecting consumers.
The consumer agency, created by the 2010 financial overhaul law in response to the crisis, was fiercely opposed by Wall Street interests and Republicans in Congress.
But the loan provision, just three paragraphs in the Sarbanes-Oxley financial reform law, leaves much unclear, including what a loan is and what modifying a loan means.
Its new tenants include leading financial, law and communications firms.
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The bureau said Monday it plans to propose the new rules, required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, by this summer and finish them by next January following a comment period.
The Volcker rule was mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Financial Reform law to prevent banks that receive government backstops like deposit insurance from making risky trades that could endanger taxpayer and depositor funds.
Now without a permanent chairman and missing a member, the commission has been in no hurry to draft a fiduciary rule, which it recommended under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law more than two years ago.
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From what I have been reading in trade publications like Investment News, it looks like the fiduciary standard provision may not make it into the current financial reform law and if it does it could be watered down.
Beyond the budget, Lew is expected to hew closely to the positions Geithner struck on Europe's debt crisis, the U.S. relationship with China and the administration's defense of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law that the banking industry has fought to weaken.
Oklahoma's new Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt has bolstered the cause by challenging the tax penalty provisions of the federal health care law, filing suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and joining a multi-state challenge to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
The consumer bureau, created by the 2010 financial overhaul law known as the Dodd-Frank Act, gained new powers to reach deep into the most mundane decisions of money-transfer agents, mortgage bankers, auto lenders and virtually anyone else who provides financial products and services.
The Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law specifically targeted rating firms by requiring financial regulators to purge references to ratings from their rules.
In his paper analyzing tax law reforms that affect the financial industry, Tulane Law Review Professor Richard T.
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The Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, for example, is expected to generate hundreds more separate disclosure rules.
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In the U.S., the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave shareholders a nonbinding say-on-pay vote starting in 2011.
Last year's Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave the CFTC more authority to pursue fraud charges.
Under the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law, investors began casting nonbinding votes on executive pay in 2011.
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