On December 20, 2011 the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement the heightened supervisory standards and early remediation requirements that are intended to play a crucial role in achieving the aims of the Dodd-Frank Act. 

Measures to help avoid a future crisis and proposals to change the way in which the government responds to crises should they happen nonetheless.

The House Financial Services Committee's October 27 Discussion Draft proposes measures that would, if enacted, retard economic growth, allow the government to assume control over the financial system, and seriously impair financial competition.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry--including banking, insurance and securities--who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy.

Should new financial activities of banking organizations be permitted only through the subsidiaries of bank holding companies?

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) is proposing to regulate bank liquidity. This marks a major innovation in the Basel approach to international banking regulation.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established a Financial Stability Oversight Council to identify "systemically important nonbank financial companies" that could potentially pose a threat to US financial stability.

Financial problems should not be solved by resorting to failed capital market controls, but rather by reinvigorating prudential regulatory financial market oversight and managing the exchange rate.