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Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, unveiled the Financial CHOICE Act, a plan he believes will end taxpayer-funded bailouts and provide pro-growth regulatory relief.

Two GOP plans to overhaul the controversial Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act are expected to be revealed in the next week or so.

A group of progressives who believe that Wall Street is not regulated enough has organized a coalition in hopes of getting stricter rules passed.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the SAFE Transitional Licensing Act by voice vote. The bill could alter the way that mortgage loan officers at a federally-insured institution move to nonbank lenders.

Fed Governor Daniel K. Tarullo announced plans to address regulating insurance companies that are deemed too big to fail.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has some definite ideas about financial reform, and he plans to unveil those ideas in the next couple of weeks.

The perception among Republicans is that the financial industry, and the country in general, have been overregulated under President Obama. But the president's political party might not be as much of a factor as some think.

At the center of the continuing fight between political factions over Dodd-Frank nearly six years after the controversial financial reform law passed is the debate over who, or what, actually caused the financial crisis in 2008. 

The proposal is prescribed by section 956 of Dodd-Frank. What impositions would the proposal place on certain financial institutions?

Lawmakers’ efforts to chip away at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act have come almost exclusively from the Republican side of the aisle—until now.