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• Congress Pressures Swaps Regulators to Curb Dodd-Frank

  By Silla Brush, Bloomberg  |  May 7, 2013

  House Financial Services Committee to vote today on measures to ease derivatives requirements.

• Disclosure of CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios Stalls

  By Elliot Blair Smith and Phil Kuntz, Bloomberg  |  April 30, 2013

  SEC has yet to draw up rules as big companies lobby against the Dodd-Frank requirement.

• Wall Street May Win Swap-Rule Revisions

  By Silla Brush, Bloomberg  |  March 20, 2013

  House committee advances legislation giving banks greater ability to trade swaps overseas.

• Bipartisan Bills Aim to Ease Dodd-Frank Swaps Pushout

  By Cheyenne Hopkins and Silla Brush, Bloomberg  |  March 7, 2013

  House and Senate measures would allow more swaps trading at federally insured banks.

• Fed Could Maintain Stimulus After QE Ends: Yellen

  By Craig Torres and Jeanna Smialek  |  February 12, 2013

  Fed vice chair says the central bank could keep rates low even after achieving inflation or employment targets.

• Big Banks Get More Time to Isolate Derivatives

  By Silla Brush, Bloomberg  |  January 4, 2013

  Financial institutions may get until 2015 to comply with Dodd-Frank rules about separating trades.

• Michigan Right-to-Work Law Viewed as Domino

  By Keith Naughton, John McCormick and Chris Christoff, Bloomberg  |  December 14, 2012

  Other Rust Belt states could follow Michigan's lead.

• Obama Counts on Re-Election Clout to Win on Fiscal Cliff

  By Julianna Goldman and Roger Runningen, Bloomberg  |  December 3, 2012

  Geithner says no budget deal without tax increases.

• Obama-Boehner 2011 Talks a Starting Point for Fiscal Cliff Deal

  By Heidi Przybyla and Mike Dorning, Bloomberg  |  November 9, 2012

  Medicare and Social Security adjustments could again be part of negotiations

• CFTC May Exempt Interaffiliate Swaps

  By Silla Brush, Bloomberg  |  August 17, 2012

  Under proposal, trades between units of the same company would not have to go through clearinghouses.