Where social media and corporate finance meet, equity crowdfunding appears. The prospect of grassroots entrepreneurial funding for startups and small businesses (and the subsequent benefits for the national economy) prompted Congress to include a registration exemption for crowdfunders in the...

Charged with being the true cause of...the credit crisis, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives have received considerable flack and regulatory attention since 2008. This attention is in stark contrast to the pre-2008 regulatory world, where calls to police the OTC derivatives market were rejected...

This note addresses the interplay of trade liberalization and financial services regulation — namely the key issue of the United States' prudential regulation of financial services and its linkage to commitments made under the General Agreement on Trade in Services and free trade agreements....

Exchange rebates and the maker-taker pricing system have recently come under fire for creating a conflict of interest between broker-dealers and their customers. Cognizant of the complexity inherent in our equity market microstructure, this paper seeks to add to the conversation on this conflict...