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SocGen Exec: Regulatory Conflict Causing Confusion at Banks

A view of Canary Wharf at night
The panelists discussed Dodd-Frank's extra-territorial implications at ETAS 2012 in London.

Much of the problem stems from the US regulators ─ primarily the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ─ defining US entities as being subject to Dodd-Frank rules, regardless of where transactions occur or the home nations of the counterparties concerned.

"For a quick example, at Société Générale, a French bank, by following US regulations, I'm going to break the law in France in January," explained Stéphane Malrait, managing director and

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