U.S. financial regulation has traditionally made functional and institutional regulation roughly equivalent. However, the gradual shift away from Glass-Steagall and the introduction of the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) generated a disorderly mix of functions and products across institutions,...

U.S. financial regulation has traditionally made functional and institutional regulation roughly equivalent. However, the gradual shift away from Glass-Steagall and the introduction of the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) generated a disorderly mix of functions and products across institutions,...

Existing supervisors, as well as the new institutions that the Dodd-Frank Act created, collect and aggregate an unprecedented amount of commercially sensitive financial information. Although financial institutions and their supervisors are increasingly transparent in the post financial crisis...

The Dodd-Frank Act amendments to the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, and the implementing regulations issued by the CFPB, are intended to provide enhanced consumer protections to U.S. residents sending funds to foreign countries. The legislation and regulations were designed for a model in which...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act” or “Act”) was enacted in the United States in response to the financial crisis that began in 2007. Section 1073 of the Dodd-Frank Act provides a new regulatory framework for remittance transfers made from the...

“History repeats itself” is not just an idiom, it is the naked truth; another agonizing fact is that humans do not seem to have learned from past experiences throughout history. For instance, misleading or policy error by the Fed (unwarranted tight-money policy stance in the 1920s) was...

Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, befürchtet, dass die Erwartungen, die mit der Wahl Barack Obamas zum neuen US-Präsidenten verknüpft sind, zu hoch seien. Obama erbe mit seinem Amtsantritt eine kaum zu bewältigende ökonomische Herausforderung, so dass die...

Die Fehlleistungen der marktbeherrschenden US-amerikanischen Ratingagenturen ließen den Wunsch nach Etablierung einer großen europäischen Ratingagentur laut werden. Erich Harbrecht und Martin Wieland, Deutsche Bundesbank, halten eine Forderung nach einem Gegengewicht zu US-Agenturen nicht...