NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is revisiting the rule that bears his name, hoping to restore its potency after a lawmakers’ tinkering. Volcker is pushing ...

The working paper’s authors found that the Volcker Rule might be increasing banks costs of trading. When this paper is peer reviewed, perhaps we will find that the costs have indeed gone up.

The centerpiece of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, known as the "Volcker rule," was stalled for years amid government infighting and intense lobbying by banks to weaken it.

The Volcker rule is named after Paul Volcker, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1979 to1987 and served as the head of the Economic Advisory Board under Obama from 2009 to 2011.. In his ...

We've nearly reached the end of the road with the Volcker Rule, but, to quote Boyz II Men, we can’t just let it go. At least not yet. The final version of the Volcker Rule is due out next ...

The Volcker rule is a nod toward Glass-Steagall, a Depression-era law that Congress repealed in 1999. Glass-Steagall had prevented commercial banks from dabbling in investment banking.

In 2008, in the wake of the financial crisis, the now 86-year-old Paul Volcker, who served as Fed chairman in the 1970s and 1980s, proposed a ban on big banks making risky bets for their own ...

The draft proposal of the Volcker Rule asks many questions that both banks and their critics hope to answer. Subscribe To Newsletters. Volcker Rule Is Out, How Much Will It ...

The Volcker Rule Must Be Strengthened JPMorgan’s Misplaced $2 Billion Bet Reveals Dangers to Taxpayers. Travis Waldron parses the evidence of why risky proprietary trading is the root of the ...

As the provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law begin to go into effect, federal oversight agencies have issued the first draft of the “Volcker Rule.” Named for former Federal ...