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About CSFME

The Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution (CSFME) is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve transparency, reduce risks, support research, and promote sound regulation of financial markets. It does so by conducting data-driven analysis, providing investor education, and supporting regulatory reviews in otherwise opaque markets. It serves individual and institutional investors, banks, brokers, other financial market participants, academic institutions, and government regulatory agencies.

CSFME Team

Ed Blount, Executive Director

Ed Blount, Executive Director

Ed Blount is the founder and Executive Director of the CSFME.  In 1992, Ed was the first to create a system of peer reviews and securities lending benchmarks for board reporting, called Lending Program Monitor, by forming an institutional research cooperative that grew to include 150 securities lenders, 30 lending agents and 50 borrowers. By 2005, Ed had designed and developed Lending Pit, the first internet-based loan pricing and risk management service with one million daily updates for over 50,000 securities issues.  In 2007, Ed sold ASTEC Consulting Group, the securities finance research firm he had founded in 1980, to SunGard Data Systems. At that time, the ASTEC research cooperatives and online risk/pricing systems were serving 500 institutional investors and their agents with counterparty exposures of $3 trillion.  Among these were 350 of the largest U.S. pension funds and 80 of the largest 100 mutual fund families.  Since 2006, Ed has been working through the CSFME.  read more

Bob Daigle, Executive Vice President

 As Executive Vice President at the non-profit Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution, Mr. Daigle manages all aspects of the Center’s efforts to use quantitative methods to improve transparency, while still protecting confidentiality in opaque markets.  read more 

Kevin Talty, Senior Compliance Liaison

As lead liaison to public pension funds, Mr. Talty manages relationships between the Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution and beneficial owners who have expressed interest and willingness to participate in research studies.  read more

David Schwartz, Senior Policy Analyst

As the Center's lead analyst for regulatory policy, Mr. Schwartz tracks changes in global financial regulation and provides up-to-the-minute reports that ensure CSFME members and associates remain informed of key market developments.  read more