The FinReg Pod

Ty Gellasch is executive director of Healthy Markets Association, an investor-focused non-profit coalition that was founded on the premise that investors need independent information and analysis of market structure. In this episode, Ty discusses the rise of numerous for-profit securities exchanges, the role of high-frequency trading, and the ability of regulators to understand what's going on in...

Sarah Quinn, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, and author of: "American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation," talks about the long history of the US government's use of credit allocation as a tool of statecraft. Giving us insight into her book, Quinn shows that since the Westward expansion, the U.S. government has used financial markets to manage America's...

Ryan Clements, assistant professor at the University of Calgary Law School, discusses his doctoral research on how Exchange Traded Funds may contribute to financial market instability. Ryan acknowledges the fact that ETFs have made the average investor immeasurably better off by providing low-cost diversification, but his research has shed light on what is a classic tragedy of the commons problem,...

Bill Coen, former Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, discusses his experience on the Basel Committee as he led the effort to develop and define the Committee's strategy with the ultimate objective of reaching consensus on global guidelines, standards, and best practices. As Secretary General and career at the Basel Committee, Bill played an instrumental role in reshap...

Rostin Behnam, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner, and Sarah Bloom Raskin, former Deputy Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Board Governor, speak about the risks that climate change poses to the stability of our financial system. In the US, central bankers and financial regulators have been slow to adopt an understanding of the detrimental impacts of climate change, but C...

Ben  Lawsky , CEO of the  Lawsky  Group and the former New York State Superintendent of Financial Services, talks about his experience creating the New York BitLicense, a first-of-its-kind state licensing regime for the virtual currency industry with The FinReg Pod host, Lee Reiners. Want to contact the show? Email  reiners@law.duke.edu Interested in learning more about issues in financial regulat...

Aaron Klein addresses the costs of America's slow and antiquated payment system and its contribution to economic inequality with The FinReg Pod host Lee Reiners. Klein is a fellow in Economic Studies and policy director of the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution. He focuses on financial regulation and technology, macroeconomics, and infrastructure finance and policy.   Fo...

Part 2 of Joe Smith talking about his role as court appointed monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement in the wake of the global financial crisis with The FinReg Pod host Reiners. Smith is currently a partner at Poyner Spruill and a fellow at the Global Financial Markets Center. From 2002 to 2012, Joe served as North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, before taking on his role as monitor.   A Revi...

Part 1 of Joe Smith talking about his role as court appointed monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement in the wake of the global financial crisis with The FinReg Pod host Lee Reiners. Smith is currently a partner at Poyner Spruill and a fellow at the Global Financial Markets Center. From 2002 to 2012, Joe served as North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, before taking on his role as monitor.   A...