Video: Sheila Bair On Bailouts, Risk Retention Rule

Video - Sheila Bair - Mar. 29, 2011

Chairman Sheila Bair discusses the FDIC's meeting today on proposed rules requiring lenders to keep a stake in loans they securitize.  Bair, speaking with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness," also discusses a measure that would require "systemically important" firms to draft plans for how their operations can be resolved after a collapse. 

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Lenders Could Get Exemptions Under New Risk-Retention Rule

U.S. regulators proposed exempting banks and bond issuers who meet high underwriting standards from rules requiring them to keep a stake in loans they securitize, according to a draft proposal.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-28/lenders-said-to-get-exemption-option-under-risk-retention-rule.html

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Securitization Skin-in-the-Game Rules Permit Hedging Stakes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/securitization-skin-in-the-game-rules-permit-hedging-stakes-2-.html

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[DailyBail]

Lenders Could Get Exemptions Under New Risk-Retention Rule

U.S. regulators proposed exempting banks and bond issuers who meet high underwriting standards from rules requiring them to keep a stake in loans they securitize, according to a draft proposal.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-28/lenders-said-to-get-exemption-option-under-risk-retention-rule.html

[DailyBail]

Securitization Skin-in-the-Game Rules Permit Hedging Stakes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/securitization-skin-in-the-game-rules-permit-hedging-stakes-2-.html

[Yu Augri]

More Obama exemptions, great.

Hey Daily Bail blogger, did you see the insider trading at Berkshire Hathaway? Martha Stewart should be pissed.

[john]

Note: She keeps looking at her shoes...

[josie]

I admit it. I have a crush on Maggie Brennan...

[DailyBail]

Josie...she's even more attractive in person...

[josie]

Thanks, DB. That's not what I needed to hear. But I'm not surprised...and she's a smart hottie, too...now back to my wife (who's beautiful--she reads this site as well) and kids...

[Wil Martindale]

So we've gradually moved from "There will be no collapse--the recovery is under way" to insuring that the bailout queens draft a solid succession plan for how they'll survive it?

Priceless....