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Simon Newman/ReutersGary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Under pressure from Wall Street lobbyists, federal regulators have agreed to soften a rule intended to rein in the banking industry's domination of a risky ...

Martin Wheatley, the head of the U.K. markets regulator, said the London interbank offered rate should be transitioned to a transaction-based benchmark using a dual-track system. The tarnished benchmark, based on a daily survey of panel banks, ...

(Philadelphia Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- LET'S FACE FACTS, the judges on "American Idol" do less actual judging than the "judges" at Philadelphia Traffic Court. Their purpose is to cheerlead and create drama ...

Money columnist Darrell Delamaide.(Photo: H. Darr Beiser, USATODAY)Story HighlightsGensler, a former Goldman Sachs partner, is an unlikely hero of financial reformFinancial industry is lobbying hard to hold back tougher rules on derivativesAbuses in ...

Jeff Ogiba in front of his Black Gold Records in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (photo: Andy Gensler) Black Gold, Brooklyn, NY By the time I get to Black Gold in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood at around 4:00 p.m. on Record Store Day, the shop is ...

Regulators will seek to eliminate conflicts that have led to manipulation of benchmark lending rates while investigations into Libor continue around the world. A panel led by U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and U.K.

U.S. regulator Gary Gensler told CNBC that U.S. and U.K. regulators needed to implement an alternative to the scandal-plagued London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) soon. "[These rates] are incredibly important. Over $300 trillion of derivatives and ...

`` Two interest rate benchmarks that banks were fined for rigging should be scrapped and replaced by indicators based on market transactions, a top U.S. regulator said on Monday. The changes should also include benchmarks linked to gold, oil and ...

(Updates with Gensler comments in fourth paragraph.) April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Nine overseas finance officials urged U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to limit the cross- border reach of Dodd-Frank Act swaps rules that they say are fragmenting the ...