White House Looking to Curb Wall Street’s Excesses
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 22nd, 2009 4:51 am by HL
White House Looking to Curb Wall Street’s Excesses
Faced with the glaring problem of indulgence and intractability on the highest tiers of Wall Street’s corporate behemoths, the Obama administration is considering different options to make financial institutions more accountable and more transparent to the government and to the taxpayers who granted them buoyancy—and are still waiting for evidence that doing so will help them in turn down the line.
The New York Times:
The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.
The outlines of the plan are expected to be unveiled this week in preparation for President Obama’s first foreign summit meeting in early April.
Officials said the proposal would seek a broad new role for the Federal Reserve to oversee large companies, including major hedge funds, whose problems could pose risks to the entire financial system.
It will propose that many kinds of derivatives and other exotic financial instruments that contributed to the crisis be traded on exchanges or through clearinghouses so they are more transparent and can be more tightly regulated. And to protect consumers, it will call for federal standards for mortgage lenders beyond what the Federal Reserve adopted last year, as well as more aggressive enforcement of the mortgage rules.
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