SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...

Many commentators have argued that securitization – where investment banks pool receivables, such as mortgages, and then resell them as a collection of securities – creates investments so complex that even sophisticated investors cannot determine asset quality. Securitization’s critics...

This chapter introduces financial market infrastructures (FMIs), the backbone and the critical providers of essential services to modern financial markets. FMIs have been a central piece to the post-2008 global financial crisis reforms. Yet, despite the critical functions they provide in the...

This essay was published as part of a law review symposium that evaluated my work on theregulation of large, complex financial institutions. Part I of my essay discusses the other articlespublished in the symposium issue and describes their relationship to my own work. Part IIanalyzes the global...

The hedge fund industry in the United States evolved from a niche market participant in the early 1950s to a major industry operating in international financial markets. Hedge funds in the United States were originally privately-held, privately-managed investment funds, unregistered and exempt...

Securities regulation wears two hats: Its “upstream” side governs firms in connection with their obtaining financing in the securities markets. That is, it regulates firms' — issuers' — offers and sales of securities, whether in public offerings to retail investors or in private...

Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct a study regarding gaps or deficiencies in the regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers. These firms often perform similar functions but are regulated differently under an antiquated...

This Article uses a rational choice analysis to simplify the increasingly complex area of international financial regulation. It proceeds by identifying four “interdependence problems” relating to harmonization of financial standards, capital requirements, bank resolution procedures, and an...

Recently, significant market and regulatory attention has focused on a new trend known as “futurization” — the recasting of economic arrangements previously transacted as swaps to trade as futures. This trend results from new regulations governing swap markets under the Dodd-Frank Act,...

This Article demonstrates that regulatory collisions are an unintended consequence of well-meaning, post-financial crisis reforms by both public and private market regulators in the over-the-counter derivatives market. Many of these reforms are designed to regulate systemic risk. As this Article...