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Witnesses testified about implementation of the financial regulation law that President Obama signed the previous July, and the effect of that legislation on the commodities and derivatives…

Members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the commission’s report on the 2008 economic collapse.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its final report on the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. According to the conclusions in the report, the crisis occurred because government…

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission about the actions of the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis and the future of financial…

Witnesses testified about actions taken by the banking industry and the federal government in the 2008 financial crisis. Among the topics they addressed were monitoring systemic risk, and…

Witnesses talked about the banking industry and the 2008 financial crisis. Among the topics they addresed were risk management, government decisions on which financial firms were considered “too…

Current and former regulators testified on the causes and consequences and role of derivatives in the 2008 financial crisis. Among the topics they addressed were the causes of the crisis,…

Academics testified about derivative trading and the 2008 financial crisis. They provided background information and an overview of derivative trading markets, credit default swaps, and…

Goldman Sachs executives testified about derivative trading and the 2008 financial crisis. Commission members focused on reasons for a subpoena to get the Goldman executives to testify and…

Witnesses testified on the role of credit rating and the 2008 financial crisis. In the first of three panels, witnesses focused on the credit rating process and potential conflicts of…

Witnesses testified on the role of credit rating and the 2008 financial crisis. Warren Buffett and Raymond McDaniel testified about Moody’s business practices, the relationship between…

Former Bear Stearns executives testified about the 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns, financial markets, and the “shadow banking system.” They contended that media reports and rumors in financial…

Former officials from Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and its successor agency in 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), talked about their oversight of Fannie Mae.…

In the third of three days of hearings held by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), former Fannie Mae executives Robert Levin and Daniel Mudd testified in the role of their company in the…

The current and most recent former comptrollers of the currency testifed in the second of three days of hearings held by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). Congress…

Former Citigroup executives testified on the second of three days of hearings held by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). Chuck Prince apologized for the impact of the…

Several former Citigroup officials that testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on their former company’s past mortgage lending practices. Congress formed the ten-member…

Several former Citigroup officials that testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on their former company’s past mortgage lending practices. Former CitiMortgage Senior Vice…

Witnesses testified on the role of credit rating and the 2008 financial crisis. Former Moody’s executives talked about competition among credit rating agencies, their relationship with…

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held the second of two days of hearings on the “shadow banking system.” Secretary Geithner called on the Senate to continue work on financial regulatory…