Supporting the Leach and Rubin arguments, Volcker testified that Congressional inaction had forced banking regulators and the courts to play “ catch-up ” with market developments by “ sometimes stretching established interpretations of law beyond recognition .” In 1997 Volcker testified this meant the “ Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investment banking is now almost gone ” and that this “ accommodation and adaptation has been necessary and desirable .” He stated, however, that the “ ad hoc approach ” had created “ uneven results ” that created “ almost endless squabbling in the courts ” and an “ increasingly advantageous position competitively ” for “ some sectors of the financial service industry and particular institutions .” Similar to the GAO in 1988 and Representative Markey in 1990 Volcker asked that Congress “ provide clear and decisive leadership that reflects not parochial pleadings but the national interest .”

* Power Corp .' s international advisory board has featured individuals such as former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former oil minister of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former head of the US Federal Reserve Board Paul Volcker, and the previously mentioned former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau.

Federal Reserve executive Paul Volcker has accused Alfa Group of violation of the UN sanctions against Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime, and for pressure exercised against KPMG during their investigation of a Bermuda registered, Russian telecom company.

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On April 8, 2008, Paul A. Volcker stated that the Fed has taken ' actions that extend to the very edge of its lawful and implied powers.

Over the years it has boasted an elite membership of politicians, diplomats, businessmen, and writers have included Henry Kissinger, Casper Weinberger, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Luce, Alexander Haig, Paul Volcker, Tom Kean and Walter Cronkite to mention a very few.

Under the so-called " Volcker Rule ", regulators are also required to implement regulations for banks, their affiliates and holding companies to limit their relationships with hedge funds and also to prohibit these organizations from proprietary trading, and limit their investment in, and sponsorship of hedge funds.

In 1987, Volcker specifically noted ( and approved the result ) that only banks with large government securities activities would be able to have affiliates that would underwrite and deal in a significant volume of “ bank-ineligible securities .” A Section 20 affiliate with a large volume of government securities related revenue would be able to earn a significant amount of “ bank-ineligible ” revenue without having more than 5 % of its overall revenue come from bank-ineligible activities.

Citing that concern, Volcker and fellow Federal Reserve Board Governor Wayne Angell dissented from the Section 20 affiliate orders.

This proprietary trading ban will generally prevent commercial banks and their affiliates from acquiring non-governmental securities with the intention of selling those securities for a profit in the “ near term .” Some have described the Volcker Rule, particularly its proprietary trading ban, as “ Glass-Steagall lite .”

Under the Volcker Rule, U. S. banking regulators have proposed that banks and their affiliates be prohibited from holding any asset ( other than government securities and other listed exceptions ) as a “ trading position .”

Separate from its proprietary trading ban, the Volcker Rule restricts bank and affiliate sponsorship and ownership of hedge funds and private equity funds.

Banking regulators and commentators debated whether “ firewalls ” could truly separate a bank from its affiliate in a crisis and often cited the early 1980s ’ statement by then Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston that “ it is inconceivable that any major bank would walk away from any subsidiary of its holding company .” Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker testified to Congress that firewalls so strong that they truly separated different businesses would eliminate the benefits of combining the two activities.

Boston University economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff suggests commercial banks only became involved with CDOs, SIVs, and other “ risky products ” after Glass-Steagall was “ repealed ,” but he rejects Glass-Steagall reinstatement ( after suggesting Paul Volcker favors it ) as a “ non-starter ” because it would give the “ nonbank / shadow bank / investment bank industry ” a “ competitive advantage ” without requiring it to pay for the “ implicit ” “ lender-of-last-resort ” protection it receives from the government.

The audit run by the Volcker commission which resulted from this lawsuit cost CHF300 million and gave its final report in December 1999.

Volcker graduated from Teaneck High School in 1945.

* Paul Volcker: ( b 1927 ) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from August 1979 to August 1987.

Independent Enquiry Committee ( popularly known as Volcker committee ) as a beneficiary of illegal payoffs in Iraqi oil scam, he was forced to resign from the Cabinet on December 6, 2005.

Ronald Reagan is credited with increasing spending on national defense and diplomacy which contributed to the end of the Cold War, deploying U. S. Pershing II missiles in West Germany in response to the Soviet stationing of SS-20 missiles near Europe, negotiating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF ) to substantially reduce nuclear arms and initiating negotiations with the Soviet Union for the treaty that would later be known as START I, proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, a controversial plan to develop a missile defense system, re-appointing monetarists Paul Volcker and ( later ) Alan Greenspan to be chairmen of the Federal Reserve, ending the high inflation that damaged the economy under his predecessors Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, lowering tax rates significantly ( under Reagan, the top personal tax bracket dropped from 70 % to 28 % in 7 years ) and leading a major reform of the tax system, providing arms and other support to anti-communist groups such as the Contras and the mujahideen, selling arms to foreign allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq ( see Iran – Iraq War ), greatly escalating the " war on drugs " with his policies and Nancy Reagan's " Just Say No " campaign, ordering the April 14, 1986 bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for an April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U. S. servicemen, in which the Libyan government was deemed complicit, and signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which compensated victims of the Japanese American Internment during World War II.

In 2012, Kaletsky was appointed Chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a foundation established after the 2008 financial crisis with $ 200m of grants from George Soros, Paul Volcker, William Janeway, Jim Balsillie and other leading financiers.

According to the report of the Paul Volcker Committee, between April and December 2004, Kofi Annan ’ s then Chef de Cabinet Iqbal Riza authorized thousands of UN documents shredded including the entire chronological files of the Oil-for-Food Programme between the years 1997-1999.

Both Volcker and Greenspan proposed that the solution was adequate supervision, including sufficient capital and other requirements.

Because woofies would have had access to the Federal Reserve discount window and payments service, critics ( including the Independent Bankers Association of America and Paul Volcker ) opposed woofies ( and a similar 1996 proposal by Representative James A. Leach ) for providing unfair competition to banks.

After he was unsuccessful in this pursuit, he established his own investment firm, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., along with partners including Paul A. Volcker.

" The War On Drugs Has Failed ", said a self-appointed 19-member commission on June 2, 2011, including former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Mexico's former President Ernesto Zedillo, Brazil's ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria, as well as the former U. S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and the then-current Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou.

* Paul Volcker ( born 1927 ), former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve who was born here while his father was the City Manager.

Throughout the 1990s ( and particularly in 1996 ), commercial banking firms became content with the regulatory situation Volcker described.

Representative Leach, House Banking Committee Ranking Member Henry Gonzalez ( D-TX ), and former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker opposed such commercial affiliations.

Hoenig agreed with Paul Volcker, however, that “ financial market developments ” had caused underwriting corporate bonds ( the prohibition of which Volcker described as the purpose of Glass-Steagall ), and also underwriting of corporate equity, revenue bonds, and “ high quality asset-backed securities ,” to be “ natural extensions of commercial banking .” Instead of reinstating Glass-Steagall prohibitions on such underwriting, Hoenig proposed restoring “ the principles underlying the separation of commercial and investment banking firms .”

Because of the impending financial regulation ( Volcker Rule in particular ), major banks have spun off their prop trading desks or shut them down all together.

* Volcker, Sebastian, Laval 1931, A Diplomatic Study, Thesis, University of Richmond, 1998

In 1975, Volcker also became a senior fellow in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Volcker was born in Cape May, New Jersey, the son of Alma Louise ( née Klippel ) and Paul Adolph Volcker.

Volcker grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, where his father was the township's first municipal manager.

In 1979, he rescued Chrysler along with its boss Lee Iacocca and then President of the New York Fed Paul A. Volcker, who later became US Federal Reserve Bank chairman.

Sir John led the discussion on public finance for infrastructure at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting on 2003 ; he was an adviser to the UN Millennium Project in 2004 ; he led the discussion of catastrophe insurance at the World Bank / IMF annual meeting in 2005 ; and he was a member of Paul Volcker ’ s panel on the World Bank ’ s Institutional Integrity in 2007.

In 2005, during investigations into the U. N .' s Oil-for-Food Programme, evidence procured by federal investigators and the U. N .- authorized inquiry of Paul Volcker showed that in 1997, while working for Annan, Strong had endorsed a check for $ 988, 885, made out to " Mr. M. Strong ," issued by a Jordanian bank.

The Independent Inquiry Committee under Paul Volcker had reported on October 27, 2005 that he and his son Jagat Singh were non-contractual beneficiaries of the Oil for Food programme.

On 8 August 2005, a UN-appointed panel, led by Paul Volcker, published a report on its investigation into the scandal.

In 2005, after being criticized by former U. S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker for failed management of the Iraq Oil-for-Food Program, Frechette announced her resignation.

The Volcker Rule was passed on January 21, 2010 and states that these investments played a key role in the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010.