White Promises ‘Unrelenting’ Enforcement at SEC
WASHINGTON — Mary Jo White vowed Tuesday to make “bold and unrelenting” enforcement of Wall Street a high priority if she is confirmed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. White, a former federal prosecutor, says investors need to know the playing field is level and that wrongdoers will be “aggressively and successfully” pursued. “Strong enforcement is necessary for investor confidence and is essential to the integrity of our financial markets,” said White, 65, in prepared remarks to the Senate Banking Committee, which is considering her nomination. White is expected to face tough questions from senators about her decade of legal work representing some of the nation’s largest banks and corporations. But ultimately, she is expected to win confirmation from the panel and the full Senate. She would replace Elisse Walter, who has been interim SEC chairman since Mary Schapiro resigned in December, and become the first former prosecutor to lead the top regulator ...
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Too European To Fail? New E.U. Banking Safety Net Takes Shape
The agreement by E.U. leaders to establish a pan-European supervisory system for banks is an important political breakthrough in the drive to shore up the euro-zone’s financial stability, and by European standards it was reached relatively quickly — just seven months after the idea was first put on the table. Starting in March 2014, the European Central Bank will begin directly supervising all banks in the euro-zone with assets above 30 billion euros ($40 billion), which in practice means about 80% of them. The aim is to provide a far more rigorous oversight for the European banking system than the patchwork of national regulators who are at times prone to domestic political influence. Indeed, the financial crisis in 2007 has exposed the extent to which banking regulation is highly politicized in countries including Spain, where the woes of a handful of savings and loans have plunged the entire nation into crisis and led to the ouster of the head of the central bank. But, as so often ...
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Too European To Fail? New EU Banking Safety Net Takes Shape
The agreement by EU leaders to establish a pan-European supervisory system for banks is an important political breakthrough in the drive to shore up the euro-zone’s financial stability, and by European standards it was reached relatively quickly — just seven months after the idea was first put on the table. Starting in March 2014, the European Central Bank will begin directly supervising all banks in the euro-zone with assets above 30 billion euros ($40 billion), which in practice means about 80% of them. The aim is to provide a far more rigorous oversight for the European banking system than the patchwork of national regulators who are at times prone to domestic political influence. Indeed, the financial crisis in 2007 has exposed the extent to which banking regulation is highly politicized in countries including Spain, where the woes of a handful of savings and loans have plunged the entire nation into crisis and led to the ouster of the head of the central bank. But, as so often in ...
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SEC Official Elisse Walter Chosen to Lead Agency
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama has chosen Elisse Walter, one of five members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to become chairman of the agency. Chairman Mary Schapiro will leave next month after a tumultuous tenure in which she helped lead the government’s regulatory response to the 2008 financial crisis. Walter will take over at a critical time for the SEC, which is finalizing new rules in response to the 2008 financial crisis. She can serve through 2013 without Senate approval because she’s already been confirmed to the commission. Obama will need to nominate a permanent successor before Walter’s term ends. News reports have suggested that Mary John Miller, a top Treasury Department official, is among those mentioned as a potential candidate. (MORE: Obama Selects Three Financial Regulators) Walter, who is a Democrat, was appointed to the SEC in 2008 by President George W. Bush. Earlier, she was a senior official at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the ...
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Mary Schapiro Stepping Down as SEC Chair
(WASHINGTON) — Mary Schapiro will step down as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission next month after a tumultuous tenure in which she helped lead the U.S. government’s regulatory response to the 2008 financial crisis. President Barack Obama designated Elisse Walter, an SEC commissioner, to replace Schapiro. Schapiro will leave Dec. 14, the SEC said Monday. She was appointed by Obama in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. She took over after the agency failed to detect the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. (MORE: Obama Selects Three Financial Regulators) Schapiro is credited with helping reshape the SEC after it was accused of failing to detect reckless investments by many of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions before the crisis. And she led an agency that brought civil charges against the nation’s largest banks. But critics argued that she failed to act aggressively to charge leading individuals at those banks who may have contributed ...
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