The Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk is the latest significant step by the Biden Administration to analyze and mitigate the risks that climate change poses to the U.S. ec...
The Fed’s recent proposal marks the latest development on one of the most important policy questions for the U.S. financial system today: who is entitled to have a master account? A mas...
Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, Third Edition, Foundation Press, May 2021
This textbook analyzes and compares the market and regulatory architecture of the entire U.S. financial sec...
A recent guilty conviction, after a jury trial, shows how complex and fraught the zigzag path to marijuana legalization is in the payments space. At a time when the federal government has...
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI) in the financial sector has become a high priority for the U.S. financial regulators. In a rare event, five of them have joine...
Financial services regulatory reform will continue to be active in 2021, with the Biden Administration focused on activity at the intersection of financial regulation and social policy. ...
Digital dollars and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are in the spotlight, and questions abound as to the potential design, availability and functionality of a CBDC in the United St...
The Federal Reserve’s final guidance on board of directors’ effectiveness (Board Effectiveness Guidance) is a key milestone in its multi-year review of the practices of boards of dire...
There is a broad consensus that the MMF reforms adopted in the wake of the 2008 crisis have not fully achieved their intended aims. A report released by the President’s Working Group on...
