financial services

TITLE I

PUBLIC COMPANY ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT BOARD

Section 101-- Establishment; Administrative Provisions

Section 102-- Registration with the Board

Section 103-- Auditing, Quality Control, and Independence Standards and Rules

Section 104-- Inspections of Registered Public Accounting Firms

Title XVI – Section 1256 Contracts

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Title XV contains sevenmiscellaneous provisions. Title XV restricts the ability of the United States’ Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund to approve loans to foreign countries that are unlikely to be repaid in full.

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Title XIII, commonly known as the “Pay It Back Act” (the “Act”), amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “EESA”) by decreasing the Secretary of the Treasury’s (the “Secretary”) authority to purchase distressed assets under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”) from $700 billio

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Title VI provides for heightened regulation of bank holding companies (BHCs), savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs), and depository institutions to ensure that these institutions do not threaten the United States’ financial stability.

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   The insurance sector is primarily regulated at the state level by individual state agencies.  Title V of the Dodd-Frank Act establishes a Federal Insurance Office (FIO) within the Department of the Treasury to promote national coordination in the insurance sector.

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Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act (aka: "Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010"), created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB" or "Bureau") as an independent agency within the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("Federal Reserve").