by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Dec 19, 2016 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
In a June 8, 2016 address in Berlin, Dr. Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, spoke about potentially easing the burden on smaller financial institutions by calibrating financial regulation based on banking entities’ size...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Dec 19, 2016 | All
Angry investor Clyde Calvin Grady II has had his day in court. In a November 2015 ruling, the U.S. Court of Claims dismissed Grady’s suit against Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that, by failing to prevent the 2010 “Flash Crash,” the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Dec 19, 2016 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
In a July 12, 2016 address at the Center for American Progress and Americans for Financial Reform Conference, Washington, DC, Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel K. Tarullo provided some insights in to the Fed and FSOC’s current thinking on regulation of shadow...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Dec 15, 2016 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Listening to the pundits, the press, and the political class, one gets the impression that the repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act and its new regulatory landscape is imminent and certain. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of Dodd-Frank’s death have been greatly...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Nov 29, 2016 | All, Commentary
Since passage of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, the financial industry has been dealing with an almost unstoppable wave of regulatory reforms. Most, if not all have been designed to prevent a repetition of the problems that followed the failure of AIG and Lehman Brothers...