Will Dodd-Frank Ever Be Finished?

Bloomberg Businessweek: President Obama rounded up a bevy of financial regulators yesterday and pushed them to get busy finishing the rules laid out in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Many of the law’s details still haven’t been spelled out, years after its passage. Dodd-Frank was epically complex, and in honor of the law’s third anniversary in mid-July, the law firm Davis Polk issued a report (PDF) summarizing its status. The firm found that regulators missed about 60 percent of the law’s 279 deadlines; more than two-thirds of past-due rules are in progress but not final. Below, a tally of what’s yet to be nailed down:

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