Regulating Systemically Important Financial Firms, Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2011: “As the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act approaches, there will be much discussion about the progress that has been made in reforming financial regulation. Today I would like to get a head start on this exercise, concentrating on Dodd-Frank‘s requirement that the Federal Reserve Board establish special prudential standards for systemically important financial institutions or, as they are now generally known, “SIFIs.” My focus will be on the requirement for more stringent capital standards, which has generated particular interest.”