Jay Clayton. (TT)

Wall Street-jurist ska leda översynen av Dodd-Frank

Juristen Jay Clayton har utsetts att leda den amerikanska finansinspektionen Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, när Donald Trump tar över presidentskapet. Clayton förväntas spela en viktig roll i Trumps utlovade översyn av Dodd-Frank-lagen, som reglerar Wall Street och finansmarknaderna.

Clayton har en bakgrund som advokat på Wall Street, där han under finanskrisåren företrädde flera banker, däribland Barclays under köpet av Lehman Brothers. Han har också företrätt Bear Stearns och Goldman Sachs. Clayton har också erfarenhet som rådgivare vid flera stora börsintroduktioner bland annat åt kinesiska Alibaba.

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Wikipedia (en)
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub.L. 111–203, H.R. 4173; commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank) was signed into federal law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010. Passed as a response to the Great Recession, it brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression. It made changes in the American financial regulatory environment that affect all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the nation's financial services industry. The law was initially proposed by the Obama administration in June 2009, when the White House sent a series of proposed bills to Congress. A version of the legislation was introduced in the House in July 2009. On December 2, 2009, revised versions were introduced in the House of Representatives by the then Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, and in the Senate Banking Committee by former Chairman Chris Dodd. Due to Dodd and Frank's involvement with the bill, the conference committee that reported on June 25, 2010 voted to name the bill after them. As with other major financial reforms, a variety of critics have attacked the law, with some arguing it was insufficient to prevent another financial crisis (or more bailouts) and others contending it went too far and unduly restricted financial institutions. President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team has vowed to dismantle the Dodd–Frank act.
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