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July 11, 2008 at 08:00 PM
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) said July 10 that there’s a consensus building that more financial services regulation is needed, and that Congress “should be moving to empower the Federal Reserve Board to have regulatory authority over a wide range of financial institutions.”
The recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the SEC and the Fed is a step toward doing just that. The MOU has set in motion Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s Blueprint for financial services reform. In the MOU, the SEC and the Fed agreed to “deepen” the amount of information they share about anti-money laundering, bank brokerage activities under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, clearance and settlement in the banking and securities industries, and the regulation of transfer agents.
The MOU “builds on and formalizes the long-standing cooperative arrangements between the SEC and the Board, as well as the more recent cooperation on matters including banking and investment banking capital and liquidity following the Board’s emergency opening of credit facilities to primary dealers,” according to the SEC.
