General Electric Co. (GE)’s finacing unit is now off the “too big to fail” hook. While some major financial institutions relish, even advocate for the government backstopping their risk, GE is not one of them. After a long struggle and corporate transformation, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) announced Wednesday it rescinded a previous systemically significant tag on the firm. As such, GE is no longer subject to enhanced regulatory scrutiny and capital requirements. General Electric dismantles its financial division to avoid FSOC designation GE had been feverishly working for nearly a year to shed the systemically significant label….
Government Removes General Electric Capital's "Too Big To Fail" Designation
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.