President Barack Obama's efforts to win final approval of a historic financial regulatory reform bill looked more complicated on Saturday after a Republican senator threatened to oppose it

The prospects for passage of sweeping financial reform legislation have improved recently as negotiations over the bill enter the final stretch, senior officials in the Obama administration said

Barack Obama, US president, is set to push for financial regulatory reform, including some of its more controversial elements, as Republican opposition to the bill appears to be softening

The US House of Representatives took a step closer to passing a financial regulatory reform bill after lawmakers spent scrutinising a flurry of last-minute amendments

Republican senators on the influential finance committee failed to delay Democratic attempts to pass a healthcare reform bill, saying detailed information about the cost of reform was needed before they could vote

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Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said he was unwilling to make significant changes to a proposed consumer financial protection bureau but could give up a $50bn resolution fund to win Republican support for a financial reform bill

US President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to resist pressure to weaken a financial reform bill and called again for an independent consumer watchdog to help prevent future financial crises

The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate banking committee said they would iron out their differences on a financial regulation bill before the upper chamber resumed work next month

The biggest reform to US financial regulation since the 1930s became law after President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act at a ceremony in Washington