December 11, 2011
Putting the Banking in Branchless Banking: Regulation and the Case...
By Tilman Ehrbeck and Michael Tarazi, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor Buoyed by a growing belief that poor people need a full array of financial services, financial inclusion advocates...
September 20, 2011
Will You Lose Your Job Due to Dodd-Frank? Legal Expert...
Bank of America, the nation’s biggest bank, announced last week that 30,000 jobs will be cut. CEO Brian Moynihan said bank is aiming to lower consumer business expenses by $5...
July 19, 2011
With Rising Controversies over Financial Reform, GlobalEcon to Hold Virtual...
Global Economics Group’s experts have played a major role in shaping reform outcomes through rigorous economic studies and analysis CHICAGO, July 21, 2011 – Global Economics Group, an economic consulting...
July 15, 2011
Durbin, Debit, and Financial Reform
The U.S. Congress is in the final stretches of passing financial reform legislation which has been under intense discussion and debate since the implosion of the financial system in September...
July 11, 2011
Development Implications of Mobile Money
[This paper is based on presentations by the author at The Macroeconomics of Mobile Money Conference at Columbia Business School, April 2, 2010, and at the United Nations Commission on...
May 02, 2011
Martin Neal Baily: Reasonable Regulation of Debit Card Fees (Transcript)
Full Coverage: Debit Stakeholders Face Off at PYMNTS.com Durbin Conference GREGG CASTANO: Good morning, and welcome. My name is Gregg Castano. I’m the President of Business Wire. For those of...
April 13, 2011
KEY POINTS: FY 2011 Agreement on Spending Cuts to Support...
Exceprt from the blog of Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) Posted by Press Office on April 12, 2011 This week, Congress is moving toward approval of an agreement on the largest...
April 12, 2011
What Will Warren Do? Her Former Student and Current Harvard...
University of Iowa College of Law professor Katherine Porter might have a pretty good idea what’s going on inside Elizabeth Warren’s head these days. Not only is Porter currently a...
February 07, 2011
Nudging from Debt: The Role of Behavioral Economics in Regulation
Click here to download this article as a PDF. As Harvard academics like Cass Sunstein and Elizabeth Warren have joined the regulatory ranks of the Obama Administration, “behavioral” economics has...