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Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

Banks became major participants in US securities markets twice in the past century—during the 1920s and after the mid-1990s. Both times, banks with ‘universal banking’ powers originated risky loans and...

16 October 2020

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players Series: The Fourth OBLB Annual Conference Report

The potential of financial technology for innovation and growth is well-established by now. Yet startups often face many regulatory challenges in the early years, obstructing market access. Technology firms and...

The Death of a Regulator: Strict Supervision, Bank Lending and Business Activity

A recurring theme in banking crises is the public backlash against bank supervisors for their failure to take prompt and decisive action to unearth and correct problems of weak banks....

3 July 2019

Joao Granja

Christian Leuz

Accounting for Financial Stability: Lessons from the Financial Crisis and Future Challenges

The 2008 financial crisis set off a major debate about the role of accounting for financial stability. Politicians, policymakers and commentators were quick to point to fair-value or mark-to-market accounting...

Rethinking the Law and Economics of Post-Crisis Micro-prudential Regulation: The Need to Invert the Relationship of Law to Economics?

In the decade after the global financial crisis 2007–09, financial regulation reforms have been extensive, led at the international level by the Basel Committee of the Bank for International Settlements...

26 November 2018

Iris H-Y Chiu

Operational Continuity – the next battle to fix 'too big to fail' in the UK

Resolution planning remains the key legislative framework in Europe to resolve failing banks outside of ordinary insolvency proceedings, which are ill-suited to address the complexity of systemic banks and the...

2 August 2018

Musonda Kapotwe

Don’t Bank on Bankruptcy for Banks

In the next month, the US Treasury Department is expected to decide whether to seek to replace the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s regulator-led process for resolving failed mega-banks with a solely...

27 October 2017

Mark J. Roe

Boards, And the Directors Who Sit on Them

In this chapter on boards for Elsevier’s Handbook of Corporate Governance, edited by Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach, I argue that boards of directors are intellectually interesting;...

4 August 2017

Renée B Adams

Brexit Negotiations Series: 'Leaving the EU: impact on bank customers'

While trading internationally used to be the reserve of large multinational corporations, the digital revolution has meant that SMEs are now born operating across borders and expect to be able...

7 April 2017

Luis Correia da Silva

Understanding the Role of Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions: A Research Agenda

After the 2008 financial crisis, a substantial part of the blame for the numerous bank failures that occurred as a result of the crisis has been put on corporate governance....

27 March 2017

Guido Ferrarini

Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players Series: The Fourth OBLB Annual Conference Report

The Death of a Regulator: Strict Supervision, Bank Lending and Business Activity

Accounting for Financial Stability: Lessons from the Financial Crisis and Future Challenges

Rethinking the Law and Economics of Post-Crisis Micro-prudential Regulation: The Need to Invert the Relationship of Law to Economics?

Operational Continuity – the next battle to fix 'too big to fail' in the UK

Don’t Bank on Bankruptcy for Banks

Boards, And the Directors Who Sit on Them

Brexit Negotiations Series: 'Leaving the EU: impact on bank customers'

Understanding the Role of Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions: A Research Agenda

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