Experts from the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia will address efforts to moderate housing cycles using countercyclical lending policies.

As wards of the government, Fannie and Freddie became even more dominant in the mortgage market than they had been before. Almost everybody agrees that they should neither stay in government conservatorship nor return to their former GSE status. But how do we get off the tiger?

Bringing private capital back to fund mortgages and take on credit risk is an essential element of housing finance reform, particularly with respect to reform of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Using the logic of Jim Bullard,  president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, to determine when a bank is too big and needs to broken up, it is time to break up the Fed.

The Dodd-Frank Act was intended, in part, to eliminate “too big to fail.” Ironically, it may have an almost opposite effect, by making community banks too small to succeed.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry — including experts in banking, insurance, and securities — who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy.

Senators Sherrod Brown and David Vitter recently introduced the Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act (TBTF Act, get it?) in which they propose to increase capital requirements for the largest bank holding companies (BHCs) by scrapping Basel III and substituting a 15% leverage ratio for all BHCs larger than $500 billion.

With the intention of enhancing financial stability, Title VII of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) seeks to set up a framework in which most standardized over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives will be cleared through registered central clearing parties (CCPs).

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has accused researchers at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of making illegal use of sensitive market data provided by private sources for research purposes.