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Financial Regulation

Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies: Welcome to Your Regulator

December 3, 2016 By ehansen

Download PDF Matthew Kluchenek† I.               Introduction Among all the U.S. regulators interested in regulating Bitcoin and virtual currencies, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is determined to be at the forefront. Since the announcement by CFTC … [Read more...] about Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies: Welcome to Your Regulator

Filed Under: Derivatives Regulation, Featured, Financial Regulation, Home, Securities, U.S. Business Law, Volume 7 Tagged With: Bitcoin, Bitfinex, CEA, CFTC, Commodity, Commodity Exchange Act, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, Financial Regulation, SEC, Spot Transaction

It Ain’t Broke: The Case For Continued SEC Regulation of P2P Lending

August 9, 2016 By ehansen

Download PDF Benjamin Lo† Introductory Note In 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission made waves by deciding to regulate the nascent peer-to-peer lending industry. Only two lending platforms survived the SEC’s entry into a previously lightly-regulated market. Under … [Read more...] about It Ain’t Broke: The Case For Continued SEC Regulation of P2P Lending

Filed Under: Featured, Financial Regulation, Home, Securities, U.S. Business Law, Volume 6 Tagged With: CFPB, ECOA, Financial Regulation, FTC, GAO, Lending, Loan Platform, P2P, Rule 506, SEC, TILA

An Evaluation Of The U.S. Regulatory Response to Systemic Risk and Failure Posed by Derivatives

April 18, 2014 By wpengine

Download PDF Kimberly Summe* Derivatives, understood by few but disparaged by many, are often blamed for the collapse of the United States economy in the wake of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in September 2008.[1] A legislative response to the crisis was inescapable and on … [Read more...] about An Evaluation Of The U.S. Regulatory Response to Systemic Risk and Failure Posed by Derivatives

Filed Under: Derivatives Regulation, Featured, Home, U.S. Business Law, Volume 4 Tagged With: CFTC, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, Financial Regulation, SEC, Title II of Dodd-Frank

SPACs and the JOBS Act

October 2, 2012 By wpengine

Download PDF Usha Rodrigues † Public Inroads in Private Equity The law has long confined the average investor to trading in public securities[1] while allowing wealthy—or “accredited”[2]—individual investors access to a panoply of private securities, including investment … [Read more...] about SPACs and the JOBS Act

Filed Under: Featured, Home, U.S. Business Law, Volume 3 Tagged With: Financial Regulation, Front Page, IPO, JOBS Act, SEC

Complexity of Regulation

June 16, 2012 By wpengine

Download PDF Chester S. Spatt† It is a great pleasure to provide keynote remarks at this weekend’s conference on “Complexity and Change in Financial Regulation” at the Harvard Law School. In my comments tonight I will try to build from my experiences as a former Chief … [Read more...] about Complexity of Regulation

Filed Under: Volume 3 Tagged With: Business Roundtable, Dodd-Frank, financial crisis, Financial Regulation, Front Page, Proxy Access, SEC, symposium, Systemically Important Financial Institutions

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