Politics Could Slow Risk Control Overhaul

SEC-CFTC Merger Becomes 'Harmonization'

October 5, 2009

NEW YORK - Regulatory officials are pondering significant changes to the way the U.S. oversees financial markets in the wake of last year's credit crisis and the failure to prevent Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, but lawmakers will have to make some hard choices before any real changes can happen. Financial industry experts blame these failures on the way regulatory agencies operate in silos and fail to share vital information.

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