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April 15, 2010 | federal legislation, industry | Comments (0)From Salon.com that thinks there’s political risk to those who oppose financial reform:
So never mind the to-and-fro over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, or the endless sparring over whether a “resolution authority” proposal will deal with the problem of too-big-to-fail banks. The politics of fighting the CFPA now appear to be too ugly even for the GOP, and the banks don’t seem especially worried about any short-term impact on their profits from the resolution authority. Their main focus, according to the Wall Street Journal, is derivatives regulation, for a very simple reason. The measures that will make derivatives trading safer, more transparent and competitive, will unfortunately cut into their profits.
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