Will The Volcker Rule Really Be Enforced?
Courtesy of Simon Johnson at Baseline Scenario
The Financial Stability Oversight Council has put out a request for comments on the Volcker Rule – if you write to them soon, they may actually listen.
One big issue is whether there will be high frequency monitoring of trades by big banks – potentially enabling regulators to know if the “no proprietary trading” rule is being violated. The default approach is probably to have a hands-off, light touch – pretty much continuing our recent and not-so-distinguished traditions with regard to supervising banks.
I go through the issues in more detail – including who seems to be on what side within the government – in a Bloomberg column that appeared this evening.
Read: Proprietary Traders Earn `Trust, but Verify’: Simon Johnson
