Colleen Baker: Although largely overlooked, failures in PCS systems both domestically and internationally exacerbated the financial crisis of 2008. The Federal Reserve’s critical and significant role in responding to some of these disruptions has similarly been largely overlooked.
Chester S. Spatt: While our financial system is itself very complex, our financial regulators would benefit in many cases by designing simple and robust approaches…
George M. Williams Jr:
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act applies a number of heightened standards to bank holding companies with consolidated assets of $50 billion or more…
Celia R. Taylor: Dodd-Frank’s conflict minerals provision is framed as a disclosure requirement and thus seemingly falls within the purview of the SEC. However, the provision in fact is a back-end run around…
Elizabeth Pagel Serebransky, Michael P. Harrell, Jonathan F. Lewis and Charity Brunson Wyatt: While private equity professionals have been keenly aware in recent years of proposed changes to the U.S. tax code…
J. Robert Brown, Jr.: The Dodd-Frank Act sought to correct some of the abuses believed to have contributed to the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Executive compensation was one of them…
