{"id":5264,"date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.blawgcloud.com\/2012\/02\/democrats_want_to_volcker_rule"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:56:41","slug":"democrats-want-to-volcker-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/democrats-want-to-volcker-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Want to Volcker Rule to Be Clear About Banks Being Allowed to Invest in Venture Capital Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regulators tasked with finalizing the Volcker rule, Democratic lawmakers want them to make sure that the rule makes clear that banks are allowed to invest in venture capital funds. The proposed rule is geared toward lowering financial system risk by not letting banks to take part in proprietary trading, while limiting how much they can invest in private equity and hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers, 26 of whom have written to the federal agencies working on the rule, noted that venture capital firms are not as high risk as private equity and hedge funds. The Volcker rule would be an implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act\u2019s Section 619. Once finalized, it will go into effect on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, European Union Council of Ministers President Margrethe Vestager wants to make sure that the Volcker rule treats non-U.S. sovereign debt and US government securities the same. Vestager wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke making her case that the federal agencies need to make sure the extraterritorial application of the Volcker rule doesn\u2019t happen. Vestager is concerned that otherwise the competition for non-US banks would be impeded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/democrats-want-to-volcker-rule\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Democrats Want to Volcker Rule to Be Clear About Banks Being Allowed to Invest in Venture Capital Funds\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regulators tasked with finalizing the Volcker rule, Democratic lawmakers want them to make sure that the rule makes clear that banks are allowed to invest in venture capital funds. 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