Word: oversights
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That distance, current and former members of the Corporation say, has not been all bad, as their outside perspective can lend a sense of objectivity in their oversight...
...appointment to the chairmanship of the SEC, I simply said that she was the sergeant at the donut shop while Bernard "Bernie" L. Madoff absconded with old ladies’ pensions. She’s another card in an old deck of the dysfunctional world of financial regulatory oversight. If I sound cynical, it’s because I have been around Wall Street and the financial-services business for over 35 years. And nothing ever changes...
...political and a fiendish meritocracy. Underpaid and undereducated, the SEC staff and enforcement personnel must bring home the bacon to headquarters, or their jobs are on the line. (Was Shapiro’s deciding vote against Goldman intended to make up for her sin of oversight with Madoff?) The SEC staff, like the traffic cop at the end of the month, must meet a quota for writing tickets—or, in effect, they must find some dirt on the companies they examine, whether it’s there...
...hedge funds and foreign banks, which are beyond the scope of regulators, or associated bank entities that are not technically part of the bank, in both cases increasing risk and causing difficulties for regulators. It is smarter to keep derivatives trading within the major banks and impose tougher oversight and regulation on these institutions than to spin off the derivatives trading to where we can neither regulate nor examine the market...
...report was requested in 2007 by Senator Charles E. Grassley (R–Iowa), who has made greater oversight of nonprofits a hallmark of his tenure on the Senate Finance Committee, of which he is currently the ranking member...