Barney Frank

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  Sandy Weill Wants Banks Small Again, Chris Dodd Wants Them Big

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  If politics makes strange bedfellows, it also makes for strange adversaries.

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  To Thwart SRO, Rep. Waters Introduces User Fee Bill

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 25, 2012

  Maxine Waters, D-Calif., introduced on Wednesday a bill that would allow the SEC to collect user fees from advisors to fund their exams in lieu of an SRO.

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  Geithner: Europe Crisis Is Biggest Threat to U.S. Economy

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 25, 2012

  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner discussed with lawmakers on Wednesday a number of issues, from the success of financial reform to the European crisis to the SEC's attempt to overhaul money-market funds.

• Borzi on the Hot Seat, Again

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  Phyllis Borzi is once again feeling heat—this time from House Democrats—over her insistence on including individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the Department of Labor’s reproposed fiduciary rule.

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  On Dodd-Frank’s 2nd Birthday, Should Investors Celebrate?

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  July 20, 2012

  Individual investors have not witnessed dramatic regulatory changes favoring investors over the past two years, but they seem to be voting with their assets, moving them more toward fiduciary advisors.

• The Heat Rises on FINRA as Advisor SRO

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 26, 2012

  Just as a government watchdog is pressuring the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to beef up its oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Congress is mulling whether to give FINRA the power to oversee advisors.

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  SEC Funding Boost ‘Not Going to Happen’: SRO Bill Co-Sponsor

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 26, 2012

  Industry trade groups and consumer advocates opposed to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus’ bill calling for a self-regulatory organization (SRO) to oversee advisors had their hopes quashed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would receive a boost in funding in order to thwart an SRO.

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  Bachus’ SRO Bill Blasted by Government Watchdog

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 29, 2012

  The nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight told Reps. Spencer Bachus and Barney Frank in a letter on Tuesday that it opposes Bachus’ bill to create an advisor SRO.

• The Next Congress

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  May 24, 2012

  This year’s congressional elections hold considerable potential to reshuffle power on Capitol Hill.

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  What’s Behind Congressional Freeze on SEC Funding?

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  March 15, 2012

  In part one of a two-part series on the Bizarro World inside the beltway, a skeptical observer suggests there’s a method to the madness of starving the SEC of what it needs to do its job.