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Derivatives
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Lending Law Report
Derivatives Market Reform – Where Are We Headed?
By Susan Alker
What's going on in the derivatives market these days? There's lots of talk about regulation -- who, how, when, and what. My partners in our derivatives practice have written a summary of the three…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Henry Hu’s Testimony on Derivatives Legislation
Testimony Concerning the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009 by Henry T. C. Hu, Director of the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Before…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC & CFTC Issue Joint Orders on Security-Based Futures Contracts
The SEC and the CFTC issued two joint orders related to security-based futures contracts that clarify each Commission's respective jurisdiction and allow additional products to underlie security futures.The first joint order excludes…
The Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society
If Complexity is the Problem, is Technology the Cure?
By Gordon Smith
We hear a lot about "complexity" as a contributing factor to the financial crises. Steven Schwarcz (Duke) pins blame on the complexity of financial products like asset-backed securities. We need…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Frank Asks SEC and CFTC for Input on Derivatives Legislation
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sent a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro seeking their input on efforts…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Derivatives, Complexity, and Asymmetric Information
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Arora, et al have a paper, ComputationalComplexity and Information Asymmetry in FinancialProducts, which concludes that the complexity of financial derivatives due in part to the complicated structure of many derivatives, the sheer volume…
Securities Law Prof Blog
House Committee Approves Legislation to Regulate OTC Derivatives
The House Financial Services Committee today approved legislation that would, for the first time ever, require the comprehensive regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives marketplace. Today’s bill, which was approved…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Schapiro’s Testimony on OTC Derivatives
Testimony Concerning the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009, by SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro, Before the House Committee on Agriculture, September 22, 2009
Securities Law Prof Blog
Hazen on Regulating OTC Derivatives
Filling a Regulatory Gap: It is Time to Regulate Over-the-Counter Derivatives, by Thomas Lee Hazen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - School of Law, was recently posted on…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Geithner at the G-20 Meeting
Statement by Secretary Geithner at the G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (Sept. 5, 2009):Our strategy is to put in place stronger constraints on risk taking across…