by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Feb 25, 2017 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
“Fintech,” or financial technology,” is a term that seems to be on everyone’s lips these days, from bankers to global finance ministers. Dramatic advances in computing power, speed, interoperability, and nearly instantaneous internet communication...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | May 19, 2016 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
On December 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission left a present in all our stockings with its publication of a 208-page advanced notice of proposed rule making and concept release on the regulation of transfer agents. Modernizing the aging rules for...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Apr 13, 2016 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Banking and financial markets have always been innovative. But globalization, new regulation, and changes in technology have heightened the pace of innovation dramatically. According to a whitepaper published in March 2016 by the Office of the Comptroller of the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Aug 26, 2013 | All
While the traditional view of financial innovation emphasizes the risk sharing role of new financial assets, belief disagreements about these assets naturally lead to speculation, which represents a powerful economic force in the opposite direction. Theoretically,...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Feb 25, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
[M]ore than anywhere else in the world, the United States remains a place where a visionary can risk everything on a dream or an idea and have a fair chance of fighting for it. And he or she can do so in an environment where the investors who underwrite that dream are...
