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When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...
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The working hypothesis of international financial regulation is that it should be globally harmonized. This paper … of systemic risk measurement and regulation. The thesis is informed by what I consider two key lessons from the recent … global financial crisis. The first lesson is that, when business strategies that internationally-harmonized regulation …
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. Yet, most of the existing rules in financial regulation are still “atomistic,” in that they fail to incorporate the fact …
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. Yet, most of the existing rules in financial regulation are still “atomistic,” in that they fail to incorporate the fact …
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The EU recently established new supranational financial supervision authorities — ESAs — capable of adopting binding supervisory decisions. The upgraded regulatory framework also inaugurated judicial review by a newly established Board of Appeal and the Court of Justice against these...
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This essay, based on the author's presentation last September to the annual meeting of the North American Securities Administration Association (NASAA), addresses several issues related to Rule 506, the most widely-used of the SEC's transactional exemptions from federal registration of...
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The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted after the global financial crisis, requires U.S. financial regulators to define and regulate systemically risky firms and activities — a truly Sisyphean task. In this Essay, we identify two paths regulators have taken: a “descriptive approach,” which involves...
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