Courageous

CFTC Chair Urges All New Financial Regs; Chilton Seeks Fast Action

While the outgoing chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) called for “courageous regulatory reform” in the United States that would include scrapping the CFTC, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and various banking regulators for a whole new framework, Democratic Commissioner Bart Chilton called for fast action and “real-time, real world solutions.”

November 17, 2008

CFTC Chair Calls for Total Revamp of Financial Regulation

Acting Chairman Walter Lukken of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Tuesday called for “courageous regulatory reform” in the United States that would include scrapping the CFTC, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and various banking regulators and setting up an entirely new and different framework to avoid future meltdowns.

November 12, 2008