American politics, culture, and lawis more receptive to a regulatory regime that operates on rules rather than principles.

A discussion of recent issues that have emerged in the areas of banking, mutual funds, and regulatory and accounting regimes.

"Principles-based" regulation will face challenges in the United States from American culture, the plaintiffs bar, converging accounting standards, and a legitimate case for "rules-based" regulation.

Before the European Union gets too smug over U.S. corporate scandals, it should revisit its own struggle to agree on workable financial regulations

The Democrats have been very vocal in opposing free trade agreements but have not paid any attention to the drastic flight of financial markets out of the United States.

Statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on addressing the problems of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 that cause excessive and wasteful expense, bureaucracy and paperwork.

The Treasury Department's call for financial services regulation reform will resound into the future as American competitiveness is challenged.

Commissioner Frederick Bolkestein's speech from 5/29/2002 "What Direction for the European Union?" event