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  May 5, 2010 Financial Regulatory Overhaul Bill Drops Fund to Shut Failed Banks Leaders of the Senate Banking Committee said yesterday that they had reached an agreement to limit the likelihood that

  May 4, 2010 April Consumer Bankruptcy Filings Up 15 Percent over Last Year The 144,490 consumer bankruptcies filed in April represented a 15 percent increase nationwide over the 125,618 filings

  May 3, 2010 'Too Big To Fail' Took Center Stage at ABI's Annual Spring Meeting A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. official on Friday at ABI's Annual Spring Meeting urged Congress to pass new

  April 30, 2010 Regulators Watch 'Amend and Pretend' Debt Deals U.S. securities regulators are looking at whether financial firms may be downplaying exposure to troubled loans by using 'overly

  April 29, 2010 Republicans Allow Debate on Financial Overhaul Senate Republicans agreed yesterday to let Democrats open debate on legislation that would impose the most far-reaching overhaul of the

  April 28, 2010 Republicans Reject Finance Bill Again, and Offer a Plan of Their Own Republicans thwarted the Democrats' efforts to overhaul financial regulation for a second day yesterday and

  April 27, 2010 Mortgage Deals Under Scrutiny as Goldman Faces Senators The legal storm buffeting Goldman Sachs continued to rage just ahead of what is expected to be a contentious Senate hearing

  April 26, 2010 Democrats Unite on Derivatives Portions of Proposed Finance Bill Senate Democrats said yesterday that they had bridged internal party differences and coalesced around a plan to

  April 23, 2010 Senate Panel Turns Its Attention to Credit Rating Agencies The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will resume its series of

  April 22, 2010 House Panel to Examine Legislation Addressing Student Loans in Bankruptcy The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law will hold a hearing today at 9:30 a.m