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Posted Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2018
President Donald Trump has nominated Kimberly Reed of West Virginia to become the next president of the Export-Import Bank for a four-year term expiring Jan. 20, 2021.
Her nomination comes six months after the Senate Banking Committee voted 13-10 against approving Scott Garrett, a former Republican congressman from New Jersey, as the bank’s top official.
Find out more about the new nominee. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2017
A motion to repeal the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rules requiring commercial developers of oil, natural gas and minerals to disclose any payments made to U.S. or foreign governments passed in the Senate via the Congressional Review Act (CRA) on Feb. 3.
The White House recently issued a statement of administrative policy regarding its stance on the SEC rules, as well as along with four other, unrelated rules under congressional review. Read on for more information. Read on »
Posted Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016
After a federal court shot down the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) first attempt to adopt natural resource extraction rules, the SEC once again has set established requirements for commercial oil, natural gas and mineral developers to disclose any payments they make to U.S. or foreign governments. Here’s how the SEC tweaked the original controversial rules to pacify the concerns of resource extraction issuers. Read on »
Posted Date: Friday, June 10, 2016
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) unveiled an outline of the Financial Choice Act, which is being proffered as a replacement to the Dodd-Frank Act. The bill would eliminate the Volcker Rule and the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s SIFI designation process, among other things, and may lead to prominent adjudicative changes, such as eliminating Chevron deference. Read on to learn more. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee will withdraw a report it released last month, in which it had concluded that regulations on position limits for energy futures, options and agricultural commodity swaps were unnecessary. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had called for the report’s withdrawal in a letter to Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo. Read on for more details. Read on »
Posted Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee has recommended that the commission should not finalize its position limits rule, finding “scant evidence” that the proposed rule is necessary or would effectively limit excessive speculation in energy markets. In fact, the committee concluded that the real problem is insufficient speculative activity. Read on to learn more. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission granted Eurex Clearing AG registration as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) under the Commodity Exchange Act. Eurex Clearing AG is based in Germany and is one of the leading clearinghouses in Europe and across the world. With the announcement, Eurex Clearing AG becomes the 16th DCO registered with the CFTC and the sixth registered DCO based outside the U.S. Read on for more details. Read on »
Posted Date: Friday, January 29, 2016
In an effort to encourage capital financing of affordable and energy-efficient apartments, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced a multifamily insurance rate reduction that will become effective April 1. It is estimated that the rate reductions will spur the rehabilitation of an additional 12,000 units of affordable housing per year nationally and generate significant revenue for taxpayers. Read on to learn more. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched the new website for its Whistleblower Program. Similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower, the CFTC’s program incorporates provisions from the Dodd-Frank Act that awards individuals who voluntarily report violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and protects against employer retaliation. Read on to learn more about the new website. Read on »
Posted Date: Friday, January 8, 2016
The U.S. Census Bureau announced within its release for November 2015’s construction spending estimate that it will be revising 10 years’ worth of data. There had been a processing error in the tabulation of data on private residential improvement spending. Read on to learn more. Read on »
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