The Federal Reserve is preparing to ease a rule aimed at defusing the kind of risk-taking on Wall Street that played a role in triggering the 2008 financial meltdown. The Volcker Rule, crafted by ...

The regulation that would implement the so-called “Volcker Rule” contained no surprises. It has all the deficiencies of the original Dodd-Frank language, which would prohibit “banking entities” from ...

The Volcker rule mandated that within six months of its passage, the Financial Stability Oversight Council must figure out how exactly to fulfill its rather vague mandates, such as "promoting and ...

Nearly two years ago, in the wake of the financial crisis, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Part of that law, the ...

Volcker on His Rule, Shadow Banking, Wells Fargo Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, speaking at a WSJ Pro Financial Regulation event, discusses the impact of the Volcker rule, what to do ...

President Barack Obama's economic adviser, Paul Volcker, said his proposed banking rules would force Goldman Sachs and other banks to give up their bank charters if they want to continue proprietary ...

The Federal Reserve set a May 30 vote on proposed changes to the Volcker rule, the first public step in an expected rewrite of the restrictions that have held back bank trading desks for years. The ...

“As a group,” the economist Robert Lekachman wrote in 1976, “economists are slightly more entertaining than bankers and a trifle duller than lawyers.” Bankers, please note, were the dullest of all.