Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Hearings to examine frameworks to address future pandemic risk.
26 viewsHearings to examine frameworks to address future pandemic risk.
26 viewsHearings to examine insurance capital rules and Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) process.
Hearings to examine venture exchanges and small-cap companies.
Witnesses testified on the increase in off-exchange trading, often referred to as “dark pool trading” or the buying or selling of large quantities of stocks in private exchanges. The existin…
1,084 viewsWitnesses testified on potential risks to the tri-party repo market. A repo, or repurchase agreement, is a financial deal where one person sells an asset to another and agrees to buy back th…
1,019 viewsWitnesses testified on the initial public offering (IPO) process in light of Facebook’s stock plunge. They focused on the process of public offerings, the amount of transparency in the proce…
770 viewsSecurities and Exchange Commission division directors testified on organizational and management reforms at their agency. Topics included the need for more resources and staff for the implem…
2,941 viewsWitnesses testified on the rising popularity of exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the financial markets. ETF’s are the same as mutual funds but can be traded throughout the day rather than only…
267 viewsWitnesses testified about the mortgage financing industry. They said 30-year fixed mortgages at low interest rates could cease to exist if government backing for home mortgages goes away. Th…
1,000 viewsWitnesses testified about the state of the securitization markets. Securitization is the bundling together of financial products, such as residential or commercial mortgages, and selling the…
562 viewsFinancial markets regulators and Wall Street brokerage firm CEOs testified on the causes of the May 6, 2010 stock market “flash crash” in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearl…
3,816 viewsWitnesses testified about federal regulation of financial markets and trading conducted outside stock exchanges. Government officials called on Congress to approve a plan for joint regulatio…
1,065 viewsThe Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment held a hearing on SEC enforcement activities.
3,975 viewsThe COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON SECURITIES, INSURANCE, AND INVESTMENT will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on “Capital Formation and Reducing S…
The COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON SECURITIES, INSURANCE, AND INVESTMENT will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on “Oversight of the Financial Stabi…