The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve thequality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have -skin in the game.  

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve the quality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have ―skin in the game.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) recently released two studies as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

With the boom in student loans, the future of student lending is bound for change.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) will discuss the latest Dodd-Frank Act developments, Basel III standards for large institutions, living wills for complex financial institutions, and Securities and Exchange Commission accounting and policy initiatives.

As the United States approaches the bottom of the housing bust, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) housing expert Alex Pollock explains in a recently published piece that there are seven necessary steps to avoid another housing collapse.

The defense budget cuts that will affect us most are the reductions in recruitment and retention spending for the Marine Corps and Army.

In the latest AEI Financial Services Outlook, AEI scholar Peter Wallison, who served as a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, explains that we are beginning to see the outlines of the housing finance system envisaged by the new Dodd-Frank Act (DFA).