{"id":16362,"date":"2010-06-23T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2010-06-23T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T10:59:24","slug":"volcker-rule-under-attack-as-lawmakers-seek-hedge-fund-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/volcker-rule-under-attack-as-lawmakers-seek-hedge-fund-loophole.html","title":{"rendered":"Volcker Rule Under Attack as Lawmakers Seek Hedge Fund Loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Senate negotiators will probably offer  changes today that would soften the Volcker rule by allowing banks to  sponsor hedge funds and invest their own money, within limits, alongside  that of clients.<\/p>\n<p>The compromise, designed to win the support of at  least three Republican senators, comes as lawmakers struggle to reach  agreement on financial reform this week. To appease Democrats in favor  of stronger regulation, negotiators also plan to make it harder for  regulators to undermine the rule, according to lobbyists and  congressional aides involved in the discussions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-23\/volcker-rule-under-attack-as-lawmakers-seek-hedge-fund-loophole.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Senate negotiators will probably offer changes today that would soften the Volcker rule by allowing banks to sponsor hedge funds and invest their own money, within limits, alongside that of clients. The compromise, designed to win the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16363,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions\/16363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}