Financial reform this week: House panel to question Fed about future loan disclosures

By Julie Vorman

Financial reform this week: House panel to question Fed about future loan disclosures

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"… sional hearings, rulemaking deadlines and events related to the Dodd-Frank reform law this week:Tuesday, May 31Executive pay - Deadline for public comments to t …"

Financial reform this week: Will SEC's final whistleblower rule require first filing internal complaint?

By Julie Vorman

Your guide to Dodd-Frank law deadlines, hearing and events for the week of May 23

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"… – and incentives – for whistleblowers were included in the Dodd-Frank reform law to strengthen the SEC’s 20-year-old program. Consumer groups say the exi …"

"… sional hearings, rulemaking deadlines and events related to the Dodd-Frank reform law this week:Monday, May 23Bank resolutions - Deadline for public comments on …"

Reform reading: Fed reveals details about $3 trillion in emergency loans

By Julie Vorman

A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....

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"… ms and systemic risk to the U.S. financial system.The Dodd-Frank financial reform law gave the Office of Financial Research considerable power to collect data a …"

"… " about the bureau’s unusual funding mechanism. The Dodd-Frank financial reform law requires the Fed to bankroll the bureau based on the equivalent of 10 perc …"

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ANALYSIS: No silver lining in Gold Circle junkets for health insurance salesmen

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurers fight rules to limit admin costs while spending lavishly on junkets for salesmen

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"… €™s 2011 list of top paid corporate chief executives.Under the health care reform law, starting this year insurers will have to spend at least 80 percent of the …"

"… ™ medical loss ratios for 2010 and found that had the MLR provision of the reform law been in effect last year, American consumers would have received about $2 …"

Analysis — Insurers lobbying on the fine print may erase consumer protections

By Wendell Potter

One of the provisions of the health reform law that insurers hate most requires that they spend at least 80 percent of what we pay them in p

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"… Health Care and Deceiving Americans. …"

"… Congress wanted to assure that number didn’t go any lower. Under the reform law, if an insurer’s MLR does go below 80, it will have to issue rebates …"

"… se commissions didn’t exist. Because the lawmakers who drafted the reform law last year were more interested in protecting consumers than profits and co …"

"… ), which was tasked by Congress to develop new regulations required by the reform law, rejected attempts by insurers and brokers to exempt commissions, saying t …"

Analysis — Are seniors paying attention to Paul Ryan's plan for Medicare?

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Republicans sold seniors a bill of goods on health care reform and Medicare

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"… congressional districts last fall against Democrats who had voted for the reform law. The ads were amazingly effective. Most of the Democrats they targeted los …"

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Broad reach of new consumer financial agency may fall short in some areas

By David Heath

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that opens on July 21 faces Republican lawmakers who want to chip away at its power, companies that

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"… nesses quickly find ways to get around rules.Yet, in writing the financial reform law last summer that created the new agency, Congress has already restricted t …"

"… ling argument for creating a new agency as part of the sweeping Dodd-Frank reform law was that the financial regulators had failed to use their powers to clamp …"

Chamber seeks cash from insurers, financial firms for new effort

By Peter H. Stone

Even as it plowed tens of millions of dollars into ads this year to help mostly Republicans notch Congressional victories, the U.S. Chamber

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"… created by the recently enacted health care law. The Dodd-Frank financial reform law includes “320 required rulemakings, another 220 suggested rulemakings an …"

"… e. Some of the larger private-equity firms worry that under the Dodd-Frank reform law, they could be designated as posing systemic risks if they should fail, wh …"

SEC loses short-lived FOIA exemption in financial reform law

By Laurel Adams

In a victory for advocates of government transparency, Congress has voted to repeal a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for the Se

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"… ities and Exchange Commission that was tucked inside the massive financial reform law a few months ago.The SEC has always been exempt from disclosing its own in …"

"… l compliance or audit records in response to FOIA requests. The Dodd-Frank reform law gave the SEC a broader FOIA exemption covering trading algorithms, strateg …"

SEC moves ahead on oil, mining, derivatives transparency

By Jeremy Borden

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new transparency rules today mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform law for mining companies, int

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"… ommission proposed new transparency rules today mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform law for mining companies, international oil producers, as well as companies th …"

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