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| Wall Street faces stricter Volcker rule |
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| Banks taking positions with their own money will have to prove they are acting to offset 'specific, identifiable' risks under a new US crackdown |
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| Critic won over by stronger Volcker rule |
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| Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Bart Chilton, an outspoken critic of big banks, plans to vote for a strengthened version of the Volcker rule limits on proprietary trading. |
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| Wall St cannot derail Volcker, says Frank |
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| Architect of post-crisis regulatory overhaul says banks will find it hard to weaken restrictions on lucrative proprietary trading activities |
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| 'Robin Hood tax' is alive, warn Lords |
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| European financial transactions tax backed by France and Germany remains serious threat to the City and has not been buried, says new report |
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| US regulator acts to reform futures trade |
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| The CFTC's block trading rule would set out three broad categories for futures, requiring at least 95 per cent of trading in the most active contracts to trade on central exchanges and not between two parties |
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| US regulator seeks stock trading review |
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| Commissioner Michael Piwowar says SEC should launch a wide-ranging audit of US market structure years after May 2010 'flash crash' |
