The 2, 300 page Dodd-Frank financial legislation has already generated thousands of pages of rules and millions of words.
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The new directive may be the most important piece of financial legislation since the crisis started, but it isn't particularly controversial.
Pictures of oily birds and spoiled waterfronts trump financial legislation any day.
It is very unusual for a significant piece of financial legislation to pass without the backing of the UK, whose capital London is Europe's major financial centre.
For the moment, Mr Livingston has the confidence of both wings: he espouses fiscal conservatism but objects to attaching non-financial issues such as abortion to financial legislation.
The requirement for senior executives to put their own signature to company accounts themselves is just one aspect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was rushed through Congress in response to the string of scandals and which is one of the most far-reaching pieces of financial legislation since Depression-era laws established the SEC almost 70 years ago.
The new financial reform legislation is massive: about 2300 pages, 14 titles, 1400 sections.
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Bair got much of what she wanted in the financial reform legislation, but her feelings seem mixed.
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Parts of the financial reform legislation no doubt are too specific and too detailed to permit common-sense implementation.
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The fate of the financial reform legislation in the Senate apparently depends on whether it contains a tax increase.
The financial regulation legislation currently being finalized by conference committee in Congress has added to the depressed stock market.
Finally, the case against Goldman was made public just as the financial reform legislation is coming up for a vote.
The Dodd-Frank financial services legislation offers significant opportunities and benefits, according to Donald Wilson, CEO and founder of DRW Trading Group.
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Last year, Mr. Williams spent much of his time arranging meetings over the financial regulatory legislation known as the Dodd-Frank bill.
The Goldman investigation is being credited with pushing financial reform legislation forward.
In agreeing Thursday afternoon to end debate on financial reform legislation, the Senate gave itself just 30 hours to wrap up any outstanding amendments.
Congress, in its collective wisdom, decided it need not wait for this report to legislate a remedy via the Dodd Franks financial reform legislation.
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California financial privacy legislation was introduced in 2000 and 2001, but died as industry lobbyists, and then-Gov. Gray Davis , worked to assure its defeat.
As Chief of Staff to Senator Kaufman, Connaughton had a unique opportunity to work on financial reform legislation without the fundraising worries and political obligations of a reelection campaign.
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Black laments the fact that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is mounting a campaign to weaken and ultimately repeal the so-called Volcker rule provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation.
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Bank stocks were lower Monday as the market mulls the impact of financial reform legislation passed last week, and muted gains elsewhere faltered in the first hour of the trading day.
Many of the names of the investment funds participating in TALF have remained a big secret, but the Federal Reserve is required under new financial reform legislation to disclose all of their identities later this year.
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The derivatives bill will become part of the financial reform legislation winding its way through the Senate, and some believe the swaps desk provision will be used as a bargaining chip as the full Senate argues over what issues have yet to be ironed out.
European banks have more than a passing interest in the financial-regulation legislation now in Congress.
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But the political wrangling is distracting from efforts to get important financial and social legislation through the Parliament.
The Federal Reserve's new limits stem from a provision in last year's Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul legislation known as the Durbin amendment.
The Obama administration doesn't have an exit strategy, and GSE reform isn't included in the Democrats' versions of financial regulatory overhaul legislation.
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