Bloomberg:

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair is opposing a Senate measure that could cut off privileges to banks like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. that don’t segregate swaps trading units.

Bair, in an April 30 letter to Senate Banking Chairman Christopher Dodd and Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln, said the proposal championed by Lincoln would create “weakened, not strengthened, protection of the insured bank.”