Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution

An edited transcript of a response by Ed Blount, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution, and ASTEC Consulting, New York, in a webcast with Professor Henry Hu, University of Texas Law School, Austin, Texas, and Mr. Christopher Kunkle, Vice President of JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York, on March 21, 2007, as moderated by Ms. Diana Bourke, Executive Vice President of Institutional Shareholder Services, ISS Governance Forums. (full article)

Professor Hu argues that the securities lending market not only enables, but actively facilitates abuses in corporate governance by share borrowers. (full article)

"In a mid August conversation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, contributing editor Ed Blount spoke with William L. Rutledge, executive vice-president of banking supervision, about how Basel II will work to transform his examiners’ expectations and judgments into capital charges for banks in the Second Federal Reserve District and elsewhere. (full interview)

Canadian economist Malcolm Knight talks about changes in risk management, and makes a case for globalization. (full interview)

SEC Commissioner Cynthia Glassman explains what’s happening with the much delayed “pushout” rules and offers her thoughts on managing risk. (full interview)