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October 07, 2021

Next Fed Supervision Vice Chair Must Restore Bank Oversight

By Phillip Basil, Better Markets Director of Banking Policy (Published in Law360, October 7, 2021) The last four years were bad for bank supervision and regulation. The priorities were to weaken…

May 17, 2021

The Agenda for New SEC Chairman Gary Gensler

By Dennis Kelleher, Co-founder, President and CEO of Better Markets (The op-ed originally appeared in the Financial Times—condensed for length and subscription required…

April 30, 2021

The Agenda the SEC Faces & America Needs

The Financial Times published an op-ed by Dennis Kelleher on the SEC agenda under new Chairman Gary Gensler. You can read it here (subscription required), but, due to space, the…

February 25, 2021

Op-Ed: It’s Time to Ramp Up Punishment for Wall Street Wrongdoers

While GameStop’s meteoric rise fueled by the Reddit Revolution and Robinhood’s retail army is capturing headlines, the biggest Wall Street banks get little attention as they continue a much more…

October 16, 2019

Don’t mess with rules curbing derivatives risk

By Dennis Kelleher and Joseph R. Cisewski (this op-ed originally appeared in American Banker) Derivatives dealing and trading can be high-risk…

October 16, 2019

It’s time for presidential candidates to talk about jobs, the real economy and Wall Street

By Dennis Kelleher (this op-ed originally appeared in The Hill) Twelve Democratic presidential candidates will be in Ohio Tuesday night for…

September 11, 2019

The economic answers voters want from the presidential candidates

By Dennis Kelleher (this op-ed originally appeared in The Hill)…

August 14, 2019

OP-ED: The Lessons Deutsche Bank Learned from the 2008 Crash: Stick Taxpayers with the Risks

By Dennis Kelleher and Joe Cisewski (this op-ed originally appeared in American Banker) Deutsche Bank has finally publicly admitted the precariousness of…

July 30, 2019

OP-ED: Wall Street should support an Elizabeth Warren for president

By Dennis Kelleher (this op-ed originally appeared in …