This story appeared in Bank Digest.
The Senate passed by a vote of 94 to 4 the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, H.R. 26, which contains relief for non-financial derivatives end-users, such as airline companies hedging the price of jet fuel, from the margin and capital requirements of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. A proposed amendment to strip out the derivatives end-user provision was defeated on a 66 to 31 vote. Since the House passed the bill by a vote of 416 to 5 earlier this week, the measure is now cleared for the President, who is expected to sign it.
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