Regulation

Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has jurisdiction over a wide range of financial products, Elizabeth Warren is making credit cards her top priority.

Sen. Christopher Dodd said the work is far from done in terms of regulatory reform.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said it fined Goldman, Sachs & Co. $650,000 for failing to disclose that two of its registered representatives had received Wells Notices, which indicate that investigations of operating practices are under way.

FINRA sanctioned the New York-based company with a $650,000 fine and ordered it to review its procedures and systems and document corrective measures

“We have just established a framework,” the Connecticut Democrat said at SIFMA's annual conference on Monday. “The rest is up to regulators and many in this room. It is the government’s duty to set the parameters and remain a vigilant watchdog.”

In another outgrowth of the May 6 Flash Crash, the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday approved rules that would effectively prohibit "stub quotes" in the U.S. equity markets.

NEW YORK-The financial services industry actually embraces the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and related rules and regulations, as a means of restoring faith in its part of the economy, the heads of private client service and capital markets firms said Monday.

As the mutual fund industry faces potentially huge changes to the way it does business, BlackRock is pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission to take measured steps to ensure that smaller investors do not get shut out of whatever marketplace emerges from the new policies.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has to get to the bottom of what its chairman, Mary L. Schapiro, called "loose" capital markets on Monday.

“Financial institutions and Wall Street’s favorability rating is below Congress, which is a feat unto itself right now,” a speaker at SIFMA’s annual conference said Monday.