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President of the United States (U.S.) Barack Obama will submit a proposal to restrict the rules of banking activities in the country. Specifically, Obama wants to restrict the activities of investment banks buying assets or shares to profit.

“Activities that have nothing to do with the interests of customers,” said Obama in an interview with ABC, as quoted by Bloomberg, last week.

Transactions are usually called proprietary trading practices are the cause of speculation in the U.S. property market is the cause of the crisis in 2008. So, go Obama, limiting the size and activities of financial institutions necessary to reduce excessive risk.

This proposal will become part of the reform of financial regulation that will govern the perpetrators to behave reasonably. “U.S. financial regulatory system currently is not enough to watch the extra risks and player behavior irresponsible,” Obama said.

Close of business “private equity”

The proposal would force the U.S. banking giant, such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley, the business unit to sell their private equity. Can not be denied, big banks like Goldman would lose a lot of revenue.

Understandably, the business was, in the last year Goldman became the most profitable bank in Wall Street history. More than 90 percent of income before tax from Goldman Sachs private equity unit is.

Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein said, the company must generate their own profits in order to cover losses that occur due to the crisis in 2008.

State government plans Uwak Sam is actually not much different from the British Government did. A month ago, the financial services authority in England has announced plans to restrict the proprietary trading at banks. As a result of the rule, the country’s banking industry must set aside capital reserves to 47 billion U.S. dollars to cover potential losses from the business.

This rule is not a criticism. Bruce Ettelson, legal consultant at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, says, this will impact on the rule change on Wall Street and many business deals have been agreed previously. “This rule also increasingly shrinking sources of funding for private equity and hedge funds,” he said.