Experts Celebrate, Sort of, Dodd-Frank’s First Birthday

The presents have been opened and the candles blown out on Dodd-Frank’s first birthday. But PYMNTS.com captured video of its “party” for the 849-page baby. Working with GlobalEcon, which has one of the world’s leading financial services practices focused on regulation and litigation, we assembled a cast of financial regulation experts to evaluate key aspects of the legislation and its implementation:

Panel 1:  Banking Regulation

Moderator: Douglas J. Elliott
Panelists: Bob Litan
Alex Pollock
Nicolas Veron

Panel 2: Consumer Financial Protection

Moderator: Todd Zywicki
Panelists: Oren Bar-Gill
David S. Evans
Ron Mann


Panel 3: Derivatives Regulation

Moderator: Bob Litan
Panelists: Darrell Duffie
Lynn Stout (off camera) 

Related Reports: Consumer Financial Protection

David S. Evans
– The Effect of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 on Consumer Credit

– How the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 Would Change the Law and Regulation of Consumer Financial Products

Oren Bar-Gill
– The Law, Economics and Psychology of Subprime Mortgage Contracts

– Making Credit Safer

Ron Mann
– Unsafe at Any Price?

Related Reports: Banking Regulation

Nicolas Véron
– An Update on EU Financial Reforms

– Stress Tests Are Not Enough to Fix the Banks

Bob Litan (with Douglas J. Elliott)
– Identifying and Regulating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: The Risks of Under and Over Identification and Regulation

Alex Pollock
– Lots of Regulatory Expansion but Little Reform

Related Reports: Derivatives Regulation

Lynn Stout
– Regulate OTC Derivatives by Deregulating Them

Bob Litan
– The Derivatives Dealers’ Club and Derivatives Markets Reform: A Guide for Policy Makers, Citizens and Other Interested Parties

Darrell Duffie
– On The Clearing of Foreign Exchange Derivatives

– Policy Perspectives on OTC Derivatives Market Infrastructure

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