Prohibiting their bond trading will seriously weaken banks and the markets that banks supply with liquidity.

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Longstanding policies that were intended to promote confidence in the independence of regulatory decision-making have now been wiped away by the Dodd-Frank act, which has in effect placed all the financial regulators under the direction of the Treasury secretary.

This is the third conference in a series that will explore possible changes in the regulation of mutual funds.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee urges the SEC to allow options and futures exchanges to oversee margin requirements on these products without regulatory interference.

Dodd-Frank overall is a poorly drafted statute that drastically expands the power of the federal government, creates new bureaucracies staffed with thousands, and does little to help the struggling American citizen.

Congress is reconsidering the regulatory framework for derivative instruments as it moves to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this year.

We need fewer regulators, not more.