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JPMorgan not alone
By Nancy Watzman May 15, 2012 10:12 a.m.With the news focused on JPMorgan Chase & Company's $2 billion "mistake" and company's lobbying campaign at financial agencies to permit the sort of trades that led to the loss, it's worth reviewing some other examples where industry have pushed hard to limit the reach of the Dodd-Frank financial law, arguing as JPMorgan did against a heavy hand because they could handle the risk.
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Bankers critical of Dodd-Frank meet with Geithner
By Nancy Watzman Jun 2, 2011 8:52 a.m.The same day Jamie Dimon, chief executive and president of JPMorgan Chase & Company, publicly bashed the new Dodd-Frank financial law he and the company's top lobbyist, Peter Scher, had a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
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Poised to make decision on regulating foreign swaps, Geithner meets with banks wanting exemption
By Nancy Watzman Apr 7, 2011 10:02 a.m.In February, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with the CEO and two top-level executives from the London-based bank HSBC to discuss the issue of foreign exchange swaps.
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Geithner meets with Obama campaign fundraiser
By Nancy Watzman Mar 4, 2011 11:36 a.m.Penny Pritzker, who served as President Obama’s finance chair during his 2008 campaign and whose name was mentioned as a possible U.S. Commerce Secretary, met with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and several other top government heavyweights to discuss Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), according to meeting logs released by the agency this week.
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Chamber of Commerce meets with CFTC chairman
By Nancy Watzman Mar 2, 2011 12:33 p.m.Yesterday a lobbyist and executives representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has criticized the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank financial law, met with Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to discuss the issue.
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Top financial regulators meets with industry leaders, lobbyists
By Nancy Watzman Feb 18, 2011 9:57 a.m.Elizabeth Warren, who has been charged with setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reported more meetings with individuals outside the government in December than any other Treasury official working on implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial law.
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Banking interests strive to get regulations written their way
By Nancy Watzman Dec 8, 2010 4:07 p.m.New meeting records disclosed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) last week show that corporate banking interests, many of which lobbied on the Dodd-Frank Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, continue to weigh in on its implementation by the agency.
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