Congressional Activity

You have to go back to 2014 to find the full complement of five commissioners at the CFTC. It will now be up to the ...

An increase in our budget is a wise and necessary investment for our economy. Our derivatives markets are the most robust, dynamic and innovative in ...

We are very grateful for the increases we have previously received. Our fiscal year 2015 budget provided us an increase of $35 million over the ...

The repeal of the indemnification requirement is one of many much-needed Dodd-Frank Act fixes identified by SEC staff as they have worked diligently to implement ...

I would like to highlight a few of the CFTC’s priorities that are particularly relevant to the FSOC. The first area is the implementation of ...

This is the highway bill signed into law in 2015. It includes a provision eliminating advisers and others from sending out an annual privacy notice ...

Last week, the President signed into law the highway bill. Buried in the new law is a provision amending the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act’s requirement that ...

A major flaw in Dodd-Frank imposed indemnification obligations on overseas regulators in order to share this critical information, which has been preventing international data sharing ...

The SEC examined 10% of the registered investment adviser population in fiscal 2015, meeting its goal and equaling the mark set in 2014. While critics ...

The House of Representatives on Oct. 27 passed a bill that would halt the Department of Labor’s proposed fiduciary rule and require the agency to ...