Futures Industry Association Annual Expo CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler today spoke at the Futures Industry Association’s annual expo in Chicago. While most of the Chairman’s speech  focused on the proposed regulation of the OTC derivatives markets, Chairman Gensler also discussed the recent SEC and CFTC Harmonization report. As you can [...]

Increased regulation looming as SEC and CFTC jockey for position The  severe financial crisis that has unfolded over the last two years has revealed serious weaknesses in the structure of U.S. financial regulation, as well as the pressing need for a comprehensive regulatory framework.  Part of President Obama’s new financial [...]

Endorses House Bill Over the Grassley-Levin Hedge Fund Bill Last week the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced its support of the Hedge Fund Adviser Registration Act of 2009, a house bill introduced earlier this year by Representatives Capuano and Castle.  The Hedge Fund Adviser Registration Act is one [...]

Treasury Secretary Paulson spoke today about new financial market regulations.  In his remarks he mentioned that there should be some new hedge fund regulations which allow oversight by a market regulator. I have posted an excerpt containing the comment as well as the whole speech.

As noted in an earlier post, I have started a new section which will deal with the potential for new hedge fund regulations.  In order to get an idea of where we might be headed, I have looked backed to see what the SEC has said to Congress about hedge [...]

As I’ve mentioned previously we can expect tighter regulations in the coming months for the financial services industry in general and the hedge fund industry specifically.  To track these changes I’ve instituted a new section entitled new hedge fund regulations which I will keep updated with information. Below the SEC [...]