Professor Anat Admati, co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes, discusses the new and expanded edition of her groundbreaking book. Anat and Lee reflect on the persistent fragility of the banking system, the Federal Reserve’s Basel Endgame proposal, and the future of international regulatory coordination. Anat also shares her insights on why stronger …

The FinReg experts are back to discuss Gary Gensler’s announcement that he will step down from his SEC chair role in January and what it means for FinReg going forward as they discuss the impact on traditional markets, crypto and who might fill the role. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

Yasmin Farahi and Lucia Constantine from the Center for Responsible Lending discuss the promises and perils of Earned Wage Access programs. Discover how these fintech products operate, the financial traps they can create, and the regulatory debates shaping their future. Related Links: A Loan Shark in Your Pocket: The Perils of Earned Wage Advance P…

Justin Sherman is the founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an adjunct professor and senior fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he founded and leads its data brokerage research project. He joins Lee to discuss how data brokers obtain and use sensitive data…

Dan Berkovitz and Laurian Cristea discuss the regulatory and ethical challenges surrounding political event contracts. They explore the history, recent legal developments, and the future implications of betting on political outcomes, especially as the CFTC tightens its stance on these controversial markets. Lee’s X: @leereiners Related Links: CFTC …

Ed DeMarco is president of the Housing Policy Council and former acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He discusses the rise of nonbank mortgage companies and what the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s recent report on nonbank mortgage servicing gets right and what it gets wrong. Ed also offers his thoughts on the FHFA’s Titl…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss the latest goings on with Europe’s operational resiliency regulation DORA, along with talking T+1, SAB 121, the Draghi report and some of the takeaways from the recent run of industry conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Graham Steele is the former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He discusses insights from his latest paper for the Roosevelt Institute, "The End of Banking History? Finishing the Unfinished Business of Financial Reform." From the impact of the 2018 deregulatory “tailoring” project, which weakened …

The FinReg experts record their first live podcast discussing the latest updates to major European regulations and market structure changes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kathryn Judge is a professor at Columbia Law School and Aaron Klein is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. They discuss the origins of the Federal Home Loan Banks, the role they played in propping up failing banks in the 2023 regional banking crisis, and their ideas for how the FHLBs can be reformed to better fulfill their public mission …

The FinReg experts are back to discuss what happens to ongoing regs in the US and Europe during an election year, along with previewing our upcoming live show in Stockholm on 5 September. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Coates is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and author of “The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything.” According to John, a problem of twelve arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nat…

Art Wilmarth, Professor Emeritus of Law at the George Washington University Law School, reflects on the regional banking crisis of spring 2023 and how decisions made by regulators to resolve Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, First Republic Bank, and Credit Suisse reveal that we have still not solved the Too Big to Fail problem. Lee’s X: @leerein…

Eric Spitler, former Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the FDIC, discusses his paper on the history of bank runs and how he would reform deposit insurance to address the weaknesses revealed by last spring’s regional banking crisis. Lee’s X: @leereiners Related Links: Yelling 'Fire' in the Financial Theater: Bank Runs in the Social Me…

Danny Cullenward is a distinguished Senior Fellow with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Lee to discuss the current state of voluntary carbon credit markets and efforts in the U.S. and abroad to regulate carbon credits. Lee’s X: @leereiners Related Links: Danny’s website: https://www.ghgpolicy.org/ W…

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Sean Vanatta is a lecturer in US Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow and author of the new book "Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control." Sean sits down with Lee to discuss the history of credit cards in the United States and how this history informs current policy debates, including Capital O…

Jonah Crane, a partner at Klaros Group and former Treasury Department official, breaks down the recent collapse of fintech company Synapse, which has left thousands of customers without access to their funds. Crane also reflects on the regulatory response and the broader impact Synapse’s failure will have on Banking as a Service. Lee’s X: @leereine…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss settlement cycle reduction in depth, from the impending US move – and the most pressing matters in the build up – to the UK eyeing its own move and recent updates from Europe. A sprinkling of operational resilience, ESG and crypto are also added in for good measure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m…

Prometheum is the one firm that other crypto firms love to hate. This is because the firm’s founders and co-CEOs, brothers Aaron and Ben Kaplan, have consistently and publicly argued that most cryptocurrencies are investment contracts subject to SEC registration requirements. In this episode, Aaron Kaplan joins Lee to discuss the process Prometheum…

The FinReg experts are back for a new season, and what better way to kick things off than discussing the culmination of a theme that ran through our first four seasons – the Bitcoin ETF – and to quote Jamie Dimon at Davos, our FinReg experts are fully ready to “stop talking about this sh**”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati…

The FinReg experts are back for the last episode of series four where they discuss the most prominent regulatory themes through a game of ‘Santa or Scrooge’ plus highlight recent developments during a busy fourth quarter for updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The FinReg experts catch up on a couple of months of finreg news, pointing out how the US SEC has been particularly busy, while checking in on digital assets, ESG and settlement cycles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well Fargo was an iconic and respected American Brand. But then, in September 2016, in a settlement with the City of Los Angeles, the OCC, and CFPB, it was revealed that approximately 5,300 Wells Fargo employees had been terminated between 2011 and 2016, for sales practice violations that included opening over two million unauthorized deposit and c…

James Wigginton has thought deeply about economic power and the role cooperatives can play in ensuring Web3 lives up to its stated potential of sharing ownership with users in digital networks. James joins Lee to discuss how cooperatives can be used by Web3 firms to engage with their users, strengthen digital networks, and remain compliant with sec…

The FinReg experts are back alongside a special guest – Ben Pott of BNY Mellon - to catch you up on the latest financial regulation news and dive into the discussion of regulatory divergence between the UK and EU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alicia Seiger is a lecturer at Stanford Law and the managing director of Stanford’s Sustainable Finance Initiative. And Marc Roston is the founder of investment advisory firm MNR Capital and a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. In this episode, Alicia and Marc offer their perspective…

Tony McLaughlin is Managing Director for Emerging Payments & Business Development at Citi Treasury & Trade Solutions. In this episode, Tony offers his thoughts on the latest developments in payments, including stablecoins, central bank digital currency, and FedNow. He also breaks down an exciting new project he’s been working on, called the Regulat…

The FinReg experts get carried away talking about artificial intelligence, ETFs and research unbundling before turning their attention to ‘ESG month’ as the theme of this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There was a lot to unpack in the latest FinReg episode including CSDR refit, Bitcoin ETF applications, MiFID revisions, SEC no action expiration and, of course, more T+1 updates as the experts get into the timeline and its problems once again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

The FinReg experts are back to catch up on all the latest financial regulatory news, while also getting drawn into discussions over front-to-back-office servicing, AI, and the operational challenges facing buy-side firms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The FinReg experts are back to deliver some real talk to the T+1 conversation, where the challenges are appearing to be so significant that real concerns are beginning to arise. The FinReg specialists also discuss the recent Gary Gensler hearings and the latest on MiCA in Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss all the latest goings on in the world of financial regulation, including updates from the SEC, the possible regulatory angles of the Credit Suisse-UBS deal and we talk regulating artificial intelligence as we test ChatGPT for the podcast itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss a whole suite of new regulations and updates which have occurred over the past two weeks including a swathe of announcements in the US, the regulatory impact of recent banking collapses, and we touch on T+1 in preparation for our upcoming deep-dive episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss a whole suite of new regulations and updates which they deem to be far more impactful than any crypto developments, touching on operational resilience, proxy voting, settlement cycles and a swathe of changes coming out of the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

The FinReg experts are back for a new season to discuss the FTX saga and what it means for regulations within the securities world, institutional custody and incumbent service providers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The FinReg experts are back to discuss all the latest goings on in financial regulation over the summer as the SEC has been busy with over 30 open initiatives, the number of ESG regulations reaches an alarming height and Europe grapples with the notion of T+1 amid CSDR chaos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss all the latest goings on in financial regulation in recent weeks including crypto dramas, ESG, the UCITS side-pocket situation, comment windows, PRIIPs KID, the UK/EU divergence and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe Davis is chief economist at Vanguard as well as the global head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group. In this episode, Joe offers his thoughts on what’s driving inflation, how the Federal Reserve is likely to respond at their upcoming policy meeting and beyond, and how investors can insulate their portfolio from inflations pernicious effects. …

Ari Redbord is the head of legal and government affairs for the blockchain intelligence firm, TRM Labs. Prior to joining TRM Labs, Ari held public sector roles involving cryptocurrency and national security at the Department of Justice and U.S. Department of the Treasury. In this episode, Ari and Lee break down President Biden’s executive order on …

Barbara Haya directs the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project. Barbara joins Lee to explain what carbon offsets are and the considerations that must be addressed to ensure that offset credits entering into commerce reflect real, verifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, Barbara details why most offset programs issue more credits t…

The FinReg experts are back to discuss the SEC’s proposal to up its disclosure rules for private equity and hedge funds in a bid for greater fee and performance transparency, while the team also discuss CSDR and SupTech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Kress is Assistant Professor of Business Law at Michigan Ross and Co-Faculty Director of the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy. Jeremy joins Lee to discuss how policymakers’ long-standing approach to bank antitrust—premised on consumer welfare—has reduced the cost and availability of basic financial services and ignore…

Mike Bloomberg is the Public Infrastructure Fellow at the NewCities Foundation and a Visiting Researcher with the Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech. In this episode, he examines the dark side of U.S. cities embracing cryptocurrency. Mike and Lee discuss how MiamiCoin and NYC Coin actually work, the nebulous legal relationship between these coins and t…

Jay Brown and Kathleen Hamm are former board members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or PCAOB. Jay and Kathleen join Lee to discuss the origins of the PCAOB and the ongoing challenges the agency faces. Specifically, they discuss the role of auditors in overseeing non-financial reporting such as ESG disclosure, the difficulty in ge…

On January 20th, the Federal Reserve released a discussion paper that examines the pros and cons of a potential U.S. central bank digital currency, or CBDC. In this episode, Marcelo Prates joins Lee to breakdown the paper’s findings and the future of CBDCs in the U.S. and elsewhere. Marcelo is a lawyer at the Central Bank of Brazil and a columnist …

Art Wilmarth is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University Law School. In this episode, Art discusses his new paper, “It’s Time to Regulate Stablecoins as Deposits and Require Their Issuers to Be FDIC-Insured Banks.” Specifically, Art explains why he believes that stablecoin issuers and distributors should be required to become FDIC-ins…

Hilary Allen is a professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and author of “Driverless Finance: Fintech’s Impact on Financial Stability.” In this episode, Hilary discusses the financial stability risks associated with the rise of crypto-assets, fintech payments, and machine learning; and why she believes regulators should…

The FinReg experts are back for season 3 with lots on the agenda! After discussion their New Year FinRegulutions, we dive into the upcoming settlement regulations in Europe, the SEC’s proposed securities lending reporting rules and regulatory spotlight being placed on cloud service providers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat…

Sara Greene is a sociologist and legal scholar whose research utilizes qualitative empirical methods to study the relationship between law, poverty, and inequality. In this episode, Sara discusses her recent paper “Stealing (Identity) From the Poor.” Sara discusses why low-income individuals are particularly vulnerable to identity theft, why the ex…