Topic
Systemic Risk
220 published works
Securities Law Prof Blog
Omarova on Financial Self-Regulation
Wall Street as Community of Fate: Toward Financial Industry Self-Regulation, by Saule T. Omarova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
SEC and CFTC Jointly Propose Private Fund Systemic Risk Reporting Rule
By Joseph Iskowitz, Maxwell Li
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities Exchange Commission jointly proposed rules that would implement Sections 404 and 406 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Proposes Private Fund Systemic Risk Reporting Rule
The SEC today proposed a rule to require advisers to hedge funds and other private funds to report information for use by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) in monitoring risk…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Macey on Money Market Funds
Reducing Systemic Risk: The Role of Money Market Mutual Funds as Substitutes for Federally Insured Bank Deposits, by Jonathan R. Macey, Yale Law School, was recently posted on SSRN. Here…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Proposes Review Process for Mandatory Clearing of Security-Based Swaps
The SEC today voted unanimously to propose rules required under the Dodd-Frank Act that would set out the way in which clearing agencies provide information to the SEC about security-based swaps…
Corporate and Securities Law
Treasury Requests Private Sector to Develop System to Identify Financial Contracts
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Europe: European Systemic Risk Board and Industry-Specific Supervisory Authorities to be Operational from 1 January 2011
We have reported previously on the proposed overhaul of the European Financial Regulatory System (click here to see our previous post). On 17 November 2010, the Council of the European…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SIFMA Identifies Dodd-Frank Priorities
In a speech before the National Economists Club, SIFMA President and CEO Tim Ryan identified the organization's priorities in implementing Dodd-Frank:To be most effective, SIFMA is focusing primarily on seven areas:·…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Coffee on Contingent Capital
Bail-Ins Versus Bail-Outs: Using Contingent Capital to Mitigate Systemic Risk, by John C. Coffee Jr.,Columbia Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); American Academy of Arts & Sciences, was recently…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Bernanke, Bair Testify Before Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernan testified on Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today. FDIC Chair Sheila Bair also testified, on SYSTEMICALLY…