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January 25, 2023

The SEC’s Excellent Record on Crypto: Regulation and Enforcement

Better Markets released a report entitled “The SEC’s Excellent Record on Crypto: Regulation and Enforcement”: Why It Matters. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been subject to withering and relentless criticism—…

Reports

January 17, 2023

Federal Reserve Policies and Systemic Instability: Decoupling Asset Pricing from Underlying Risks

Dennis Kelleher, Cofounder, President, and CEO; Phillip Basil, Director of Banking Policy While most of the current focus on the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) is around inflation and the Fed’s fight against it,…

Reports

December 22, 2022

Protecting Our Economy by Strengthening the U.S. Banking System Through Higher Capital Requirements

The largest banks in the U.S. remain subject to insufficient capital requirements that undermine the stability of the financial system and leave the possibility of future banking crises too high. Capital standards…

Reports

September 26, 2022

Better Markets Issues Report on Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 Term, Focusing on the Court’s Views on Financial Regulation and the Structure of the Administrative State

Abortion, gun control, the First Amendment—Supreme Court decisions on these sorts of social-policy topics consumed much of the nation’s attention last term. But that term was also momentous for financial regulation and…

Reports

August 11, 2022

Money Market Funds: A Bank-Like Product Without Bank-Like Regulations or Protections Needlessly Creates Systemic Risks

As part of a series of reports on Shadow Banking, Better Markets released a report on money market funds (MMFs) and the systemic risks they pose to the U.S. financial…

Reports

May 12, 2022

The RAP Sheets for Wall Street’s Six Biggest Banks Continue to Grow, As They Rack Up Another $1 Billion in Fines

Six of the nation’s largest banks—Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo—have amassed more than $1 billion in fines in 35 cases in just the last…

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April 12, 2022

Who Should Be The Next Fed Chair? Everything You Need To Know

As President Biden considers who should lead the Federal Reserve Board when Chair Jay Powell’s term ends in February, it is imperative that his administration conduct a robust, thorough, and comprehensive assessment…

Banking

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April 08, 2022

Report Release: The SEC Must Stop Bleeding Public Markets Dry

Over the last several decades, the SEC’s steadily expanding exemptions from the registration requirements in the U.S. securities laws have shifted capital-raising activities between two parallel markets. One is an expanding private…

Reports

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March 24, 2022

Report Release: The Increasing Dangers of the Unregulated “Shadow Banking” Financial Sector

Nonbank financial institutions that make up the largely unregulated “shadow banking sector” pose serious risks to the U.S. financial system. Their growth in size, scope, and interconnectedness over the last decade has…

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