Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which is commonly referred as the Dodd-Frank Act. This act was passed as a response to the Great Recession in order to prevent potential financial debacle in the future. This regulation has a significant impact on American financial services industry by placing major changes on the financial regulation and agencies since the Great Depression. This paper examines the history and impact of Dodd-Frank Act on American financial services industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, more commonly referred to as the CFPB, can trace its origins to the 2008 financial meltdown. Authority for the creation of the CFPB stems from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was named for the bill's sponsors, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank. The Dodd-Frank was aimed primarily at regulating banks, the stock exchange, mortgage lenders and similar high-value financial markets. However, the CFPB was also given the power to combat "abusive, unfair or deceptive" practices that impacted average consumers. It is this power that the CFPB has invoked in its war against cash advance loans and other small-dollar, high-risk, short-term loans. The war began almost as soon

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a mammoth part of financial reform legislation passed by the Obama presidential term in 2010 as a reaction to the financial crisis of 2008. The act's many provisions, implied out over thousands of pages, are scheduled to be taken over a point of several years and are intended to decrease various risks in the U.S. fiscal system. The act established a number of new government agencies tasked with supervision over various components of the act. There are so many provisions, such as financial stability, orderly liquidation authority, transfer of power to comptrollers, FDIC and Fed, Hedge funds, insurance, pay it back Act, and Etc, which contribute to better department and regulations.

One of the primary factors that can be attributed as to have led the recent financial crisis is the financial deregulation allowing financial institutions a lot of freedom in the way they operated. The manifestation of this was seen in the form of:

more stringent regulations. After a careful examination of the Dodd-Frank, it can be shown that

Named after the United States senator Christopher J. Dodd and the United States Representative Barney Frank, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed in to federal law by the president Barack Obama on July 21, 2010 in an attempt to prevent the events that led to the 2008 financial crisis of occurring again. Commonly known as the Dodd-Frank, the act brought the biggest changes to regulations on financial institutions since the reforms on regulations that followed the Great Depression. The act creates regulatory agencies for financial institutions, as well as an oversight council that is in charge of assessing systemic risk. The council also has the power of restraining the growth of large financial institutions

The United States has one of the biggest and fastest growing economies of the world. Our financial system has been affected by numerous crises throughout the years and as a result Congress has reacted in the most recent times and two well-known acts have been signed into laws by the presidents at the time to protect investors and consumers alike. A brief overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a discussion of some of the provisions therein, opinions of others regarding the act and also my personal and professional opinion will be discussed below. The same will be examined about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Dodd-Frank is the latest financial reform passed by Congress, and by far the most extensive. According to Amadeo, Dodd-Frank is “the most comprehensive reform since the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933” (2012, para.1). The goals of Dodd-Frank are to implement consumer protections, end bailouts with tax payer money, create a council to identify risks, eliminate loopholes for risky behavior, implement say on pay for executives, protect investors, and enforce strict regulations on Wall Street (House of Representatives, n.d.). Dodd-Frank lacks clarity and is lengthy, running over 1,000 pages long (New York, 2012). In many cases, Dodd-Frank does not contain explicit rules, but instead creates an outline whereby financial oversight agencies have been charged with conducting research and writing and implementing the rules.

In simple terms, Dodd-Frank is a law that places major regulations on the financial industry. It grew out of the Great Recession with the intention of preventing another collapse of a major financial institution like Lehman Brothers. Dodd-Frank is also geared toward protecting consumers with rules like keeping borrowers from abusive lending and mortgage practices by banks. It became the law of the land in 2010 and was named after Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), who were the sponsors of the legislation. But not all of the provisions are in place and some rules are subject to change, as we'll see. The bill contains some 16 major areas of reform and contains hundreds of pages, but we will focus here on what are considered the major rules of regulation. One of the main goals of the Dodd-Frank act is to have banks subjected to a number of regulations along with the possibility of being broken up if any of them are determined to be “too big to fail.” To do that, the act created the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). It looks out for risks that affect the entire financial

I believe the Frank-Dodd Act accomplishes what it is intended for because of the many changes banks now do their business. Banks should be kept as banking and not risking money that people trust them to save. Money is hard to earn and people want to put away some in order to have a good retirement. Before if you went overdraft at the bank they used to charge you an “overdraft fee” regardless you wanted them to approve it or not. Now you have the option of what many banks call “overdraft protection” where they still charge you the overdraft fee and cover your purchases. Now you have the choice to permit the bank. Before credit card application were

Supposedly, Dodd-Frank lacks full implementation, providing President Trump an open door with which to shred the remaining aspects of the Act (Frean 2011). With portions of the Act already ineffective, the only effort Trump has to put into permanent dismantlement, is to ensure that they never go into effect. Interestingly enough, for agencies such as the SEC, FDIC, and CTFC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and the like, majority members are cycled out with each presidential term (Dayen 2017). The CFTC prefers a hands off approach and basically ignored the regulatory provisions of Dodd-Frank thereby proving it is not performing as it should (Fischer 2015). So hypothetically, an easy means of controlling the agencies is to control the members,

We now know to keep financial regulations in place to prevent another economic catastrophe. After fall of 2008, the

While there are many more provisions and over 2000 pages included in the Dodd Frank Act most of these provisions have yet to be implemented. The Know before You Owe Act and the Credit Card Act are two provisions that one can actually see the change and progress happening within these acts. These provisions are two examples on just how beneficial the Dodd Frank Act is and will continue to be towards consumers. This act helps consumers to understand and know just what they are purchasing and nothing is hidden so that brokers and banks can’t take advantage of consumers like what happened in 2007 and

During the 1930s, the most prominent reason for U.S. banking regulation was to prevent bank panics and more economic disaster like those that had been experienced during the Great Depression. Later deregulation and financial innovation in industrialized countries during the 1980s eroded banks monopoly power, thus weakening their banking systems and seeming to embody the fears of post-Depression policy makers who instituted regulation in the first place. Fear that individual bank failures could spread across international borders creates pressure to harmonize bank regulation worldwide. One advocate suggests that universal banking, at least for industrialized countries with internationally active banks, would “level the playing field” by eliminating competitive advantages created by government subsidies. Although this is a valid point, one of the major driving forces behind the globalization of the banking world is the ability of banks to take

The goal of financial regulation is to increase efficiency in the market, as well as enhance the market 's ability to absorb shock caused by financial instability. There are many reasons for financial instability, but it can be narrowed down to