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The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank, is a United States federal law that was enacted on July 21, 2010. [1] The law overhauled financial regulation in the aftermath of the Great Recession , and it made changes affecting all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every ...
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was created as a response to the financial crisis in 2007. Passed in 2010, the act contains a great number of provisions, taking over 848 pages.
In 2010, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed to reform securities law in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. [9] The most recent regulation came in the form of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 which worked to deregulate capital markets to reduce cost of capital for companies. [5]
Senate and House negotiators reached agreement early Friday morning on the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression. Consumers came out the big winners, with the ...
Nearly two years after the nation's banking system imploded -- sending several major financial institutions to their doom and threatening others with collapse -- the House of Representatives ...
Financial reform is about bolstering Main Street, while keeping a closer eye on Wall Street, a U.S. Treasury official said Thursday. Banks aren't too big to fail, taxpayers shouldn't have to ...
Major historical Wall Street reform bills include the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Truth in Lending Act of 1968, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. On July 22, 2010, the most recent Wall Street reform bill, the Dodd–Frank Wall ...
In the wake of the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), Senate Democrats were confronted with tricky math in their effort to pass the most sweeping Wall Street regulatory overhaul in decades ...