Obama Received the Financial Sector Reform Bill
Financial Sector Reform Bill on the United States had entered the desk of President Barack Obama and is expected to be signed and ratified next week.
“After beating the level the Senate yesterday and escaped at the Congress a few weeks ago, the bill was now on the table the president,” wrote White House press statement quoted Bisnis.com from his official site, today.
Bloomberg reported the U.S. Senate approved the bill on reforming the financial sector will trigger a financial industry to making approaches to a number of regulatory bodies charged with preparing detailed rules. They will attempt to adjust the rules to the interests of industry.
“Implementation of this legislation will be a challenge. We are ready to cooperate with regulatory bodies to ensure that they have sufficient information to ensure the regulatory process is run effectively and efficiently as possible, “Edward said Yingling, president of the American Bankers Association, in a written statement which also showed disappointment over the bill.
Bill on the reform of the financial sector contains 2300 pages. This regulation will create a mechanism for the liquidation of the bankrupt financial companies that potentially cause market turbulence. Establishment of council regulator to regulate companies that can provide a threat to the economic system will also be conducted.
In addition, community service agencies in the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, also will be established to monitor whether banks are doing the abuse of credit card and mortgage loans. A number of studies and fees still require interpretation by regulators and could take some time to be completed yearly. Rob Nichols, President of the Financial Services Forum, a trade group representing the chief executive officer of a large-scale financial company, said it would be with any regulatory agency to create a framework of financial supervision institution that ensures the safety, health, and systemic stability.
“There’s always the possibility of Wall Street lobbyists will succeed weaken the provisions in the bill during the rulemaking process,” explained the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairperson Christopher Dodd, who also got charged with preparing the Act.
Law on U.S. financial sector reform is a response to global crisis in 2008 that ‘forced’ the U.S. Congress bail-out program to inject $ 700 billion to big company including American International Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc.