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Personal Finance > Investing (Other) Companies benefiting from regulation of the derivative market

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The federal government has recently put forth new regulatory proposals that would provide much needed oversight and monitoring of the derivatives trading market. According to Timothy F. Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, in a letter to Senator Harry Reid, there are four major objectives to be achieved by these reform measures, including " (1) preventing activities in those markets from posing risk to the financial system; (2) promoting the efficiency and transparency of those markets; (3) preventing market manipulation, fraud, and other market abuses; and (4) ensuring that OTC derivatives ...

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