Legal and Regulatory Action Pipeline

This chart lists select regulatory actions and deadlines as well as areas of key priority for SIFMA both related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and otherwise. This chart includes links to SIFMA comment letters filed within the calendar month of the present version. It is updated approximately once a week. The relevant SIFMA committee and staff contact are listed for further information.

See Also: SIFMA's Regulatory Action Database

Featured Issues

Dodd-Frank Rulemaking

The Dodd-Frank Act requires an unprecedented two- to five-year rulemaking process where roughly 250 new regulations need to be researched and written by at least a dozen regulatory agencies.

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Systemic Risk

Systemic risk generally describes the interdependency of institutions in global financial markets and the domino effect that can arise from correlated risks and the failure of a single or handful of financial institutions.

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Volcker Rule

As part of the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress adopted a ban on proprietary trading and restricted investment in hedge funds and private equity by commercial banks and their affiliates, the so-called “Volcker Rule.”

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OTC Derivatives

Derivatives are financial contracts used to manage risk by transferring it from a party that wishes to reduce its exposure to another party that wishes to take on that exposure.