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12 U.S.C. § 5229 — Study and report on margin authority

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12 U.S.C. § 5229 — Study and report on margin authority

**(a) Study** The Comptroller General shall undertake a study to determine the extent to which leverage and sudden deleveraging of financial institutions was a factor behind the current financial crisis. **(b) Content** The study required by this section shall include— (1) an analysis of the roles and responsibilities of the Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Secretary, and other Federal banking agencies with respect to monitoring leverage and acting to curtail excessive leveraging; (2) an analysis of the authority of the Board to regulate leverage, including by setting margin requirements, and what process the Board used to decide whether or not to use its authority; (3) an analysis of any usage of the margin authority by the Board; and (4) recommendations for the Board and appropriate committees of Congress with respect to the existing authority of the Board. **(c) Report** Not later than June 1, 2009, the Comptroller General shall complete and submit a report on the study required by this section to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives. **(d) Sharing of information** Any reports required under this section shall also be submitted to the Congressional Oversight Panel established under [section 5233 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section5233&num=0&edition=prelim).

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12 U.S.C. § 5233 — Public-Private Investment Program; additional appropriations for the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program

**(a) Short title** This section may be cited as the “Public-Private Investment Program Improvement and Oversight Act of 2009”. **(b) Public-Private Investment Program** (1) **In general** — Any program established by the Federal Government to create a public-private investment fund shall— (A) in consultation with the Special Inspector General of the Trouble 11 So in original. Probably should be “Troubled”. Asset Relief Program (in this section referred to as the “Special Inspector General”), impose strict conflict of interest rules on managers of public-private investment funds to ensure that securities bought by the funds are purchased in arms-length transactions, that fiduciary duties to public and private investors in the fund are not violated, and that there is full disclosure of relevant facts and financial interests (which conflict of interest rules shall be implemented by the manager of a public-private investment fund prior to such fund receiving Federal Government financing); (B) require each public-private investment fund to make a quarterly report to the Secretary of the Treasury (in this section referred to as the “Secretary”) that discloses the 10 largest positions of such fund (which reports shall be publicly disclosed at such time as the Secretary of the Treasury determines that such disclosure will not harm the ongoing business operations of the fund); (C) allow the Special Inspector General access to all books and records of a public-private investment fund, including all records of financial transactions in machine readable form, and the confidentiality of all such information shall be maintained by the Special Inspector General; (D) require each manager of a public-private investment fund to retain all books, documents, and records rela

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12 U.S.C. § 5229 — Judicial review and related matters

Page 1818 TITLE 12—BANKS AND BANKING § 5227 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘sections’’. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 111–22, § 601(2), added subpars. (A) to (E), redesignated former subpar. (C) as (F), and struck out former subpars. (A) and (B) which related to GAO presence and access to records, respectively. § 5227. Study and report on margin authority (a) Study The Comptroller General shall undertake a study to determine the extent to which leverage and sudden deleveraging of financial institu- tions was a factor behind the current financial crisis. (b) Content The study required by this section shall in- clude— (1) an analysis of the roles and responsibil- ities of the Board, the Securities and Ex- change Commission, the Secretary, and other Federal banking agencies with respect to mon- itoring leverage and acting to curtail exces- sive leveraging; (2) an analysis of the authority of the Board to regulate leverage, including by setting mar- gin requirements, and what process the Board used to decide whether or not to use its au- thority; (3) an analysis of any usage of the margin authority by the Board; and (4) recommendations for the Board and ap- propriate committees of Congress with respect to the existing authority of the Board. (c) Report Not later than June 1, 2009, the Comptroller General shall complete and submit a report on the study required by this section to the Com- mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives. (d) Sharing of information Any reports required under this section shall also be submitted to the Congressional Over- sight Panel established under section 5233 of this title. (Pub. L. 110–343, div. A, title I, § 117, Oct. 3, 20

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