According to BusinessInsider’s Robert Reich, the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, the main regular of derivatives (bets on bets), wants
to extend Dodd-Frank regulations to the foreign branches and subsidiaries of
Wall Street banks. Horror of horrors,
say the banks.
“If JPMorgan overseas operates under different rules than
our foreign competitors,” warned Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of JP Morgan, Wall
Street would lose financial business to the banks of nations with fewer
regulations, allowing “Deutsche Bank to make the better deal.”
This is the same Jamie Dimon who chose London as the place
to make highly-risky derivatives trades that have lost the firm upwards of $2
billion so far – and could leave American taxpayers holding the bag if
JPMorgan’s exposure to tottering European banks gets much worse. Dimon’s
foreign affair is itself proof that unless the overseas operations of Wall
Street banks are covered by U.S. regulations, giant banks like JPMorgan will
just move more of their betting abroad –
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