Fed Board to Meet Next Week to Propose Overhaul of Volcker Rule

The revamp, known within agencies as Volcker 2.0, is the latest effort by financial regulators to soften rules that the Trump administration blames for holding back economic growth. Volcker, one of the most sweeping demands that followed the 2008 financial crisis, banned banks from trading purely for their own benefit.

The proposal is likely to eliminate some requirements that firms document their hedges and the market positions they’re tied to and scrap a presumption in Volcker that all short-term trading violates the rule, Bloomberg News reported earlier this month. The agencies are also likely to make it easier for lenders to stockpile assets that their customers might want to buy in the near term.