Will The US Get a Tough Consumer Banking Regulator?

How often does a bank regulator feature in a rap video? Check this out. Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law prof who is now in line to become head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an idea she proposed and Congress recently wrote into its financial reform legislation. Joe Nocera in The New York Times [...]

Sybase and Aite Group Focus on Liquidity Risk

“Liquidity risk…is the most significant of all business risks in that the inability to fund a position imminently can lead directly to insolvency,” said John Jay, senior research analyst, Aite Group and author of “Leveraging Technology to Shape the Future of Liquidity Risk Management,” a report sponsored by Sybase. The UK’s FSA has been the [...]