04.11.2013 - Fee for commodities traders puts Fed on unfamiliar turf
The possibility that the Federal Reserve will slap a surcharge on physical commodity trading by banks highlights some tricky new challenges for the US central bank as it tries to rein in Wall Street's involvement in the raw materials supply chain. Banking lawyers and finance experts say that implementing a proposal to require additional capital from banks, a possibility first raised by the Wall Street Journal in October, would put the Fed on uncertain ground in formulating a new policy for banks owning physical commodities...............................................Full Article: Source
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