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Financials: The Senate’s Banking Reform Bill – Here’s What Investors Need to Know

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Senate just passed a bill that would loosen regulations on all but the largest U.S. banks. In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, host Michael Douglass and banking specialist Matt Frankel discuss what’s in the bill, and which banks could be the winners and losers.

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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

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It's Monday, March 19th, and we're talking about, well, the reform or the potential reform of Dodd-Frank reforms.

0:32.0

I'm your host, Michael Douglas, and I'm joined by Matt Frankel.

0:35.2

And to be more precise, the United States Senate late last week passed a bill to partially roll back in a variety of ways change the Dodd-Frank reforms that

0:48.8

were put into law in the wake of the financial crisis.

0:52.2

Now the first thing we have to say here is the

0:54.3

Senate has passed a bill that does not mean the House will pass the same bill and

0:57.2

that certainly doesn't mean the president will sign the bill. Right this is

1:00.9

what's referred to as a draft legislation.

1:03.2

And think of it like the first draft of a paper you're writing for school.

1:09.2

It's not going to look quite like this when the final bill is voted on.

1:13.4

The president has already said he would sign the legislation as written, but the

1:17.6

issue is Republicans in the House of Representatives don't quite think it rolls back to reforms enough and are going to add

1:24.9

some things to it and this will need some bipartisan support to pass so there's a

1:29.9

risk that once it gets back to the Senate this could be a real roadblock to this

1:34.0

the reforms of the reforms becoming law. Right, right. So as per usual with

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anything on Capitol Hill there are a lot of moving parts here.

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And we will be diving into some of those pieces.

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So the first thing we have to talk about here is that this is in a lot of ways a theoretical conversation. But we figured, hey, this is in a lot of ways a theoretical conversation but we figured hey this is

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