Comment Text:
Submitter Info:
First Name: jess
Last Name: shelley
Mailing Address: 26783 La Muera
City: Farmington Hills
State or Province: MI
Postal Code: 48334
Dear Chairman Gensler:
Big financial companies are trying to nueter portions Dodd-Frank and that would throw important trades back into the shadows. Specifically, they are calling for exemptions for a very broad array of companies from the clearing and margin requirements of the act.
Dodd-Frank already contains an exception for legitimate end-users, such as airlines and farmers, who are doing commercial hedging as part of their business from clearing and exchange trading requirements.
We need safeguards and not let recluse must not broaden this narrow, commonsense exception to include financial and commercial institutions that want to gamble in the derivatives markets. Doing so would allow systemically important companies to enter into risky trades in a market with zero transparency and accountability.
This is exactly the kind of murky shadow banking that led to the meltdown - as every objective observer of our present financial situation well knows. Please implement Dodd-Frank as written and do not give in to the pressure to weaken the legislation in the rulemaking process.
As Abraham Lincoln said- "of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE" (not special interests).
