”Ändrad Dodd-Frank kan sätta stabiliteten ur spel”

Bank for International Settlements förkortas BIS är ett samarbetsorgan för 60 (2012) centralbanker, däribland Sveriges riksbank. Organisationen grundades 1930 av centralbankerna i Belgien, Frankrike, Storbritannien, Italien och Tyskland samt av två privata bankkonsortier från Japan och USA för att hantera Tysklands betalning av krigsskadeståndet efter första världskriget enligt Versaillesfredens och Youngplanens villkor. BIS har 1930-2003 använt guldfranc som valuta vid internationella avtal. Idag fungerar BIS som "centralbankernas centralbank". I Europa har BIS arbetat för upprättandet av en europeisk centralbank med BIS som en supranationell organisation på nivån ovanför denna bank.

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.