Though Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated last week that the regulatory agencies would not hit the July 21 deadline for a finalized Volcker rule, such news only leaves the securitization industry with more time to stew in anxiety about a regulation that many feel should not apply to them. The controversial Volcker rule, one of the many required by the Dodd-Frank Act, is designed to limit the ability for financial institutions to benefit financially by shorting their customers, through the prohibition of federally insured banks engaging in proprietary trading, covered transactions with hedge funds or...