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Full-Text Articles in Law
Financial System Engineering, Manuel A. Utset
Financial System Engineering, Manuel A. Utset
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Misrepresentation, Fiduciary Duty And Negligence: Investor Scores Rare Win In Deutsche Bank V Chang, Kee Yang Low
Misrepresentation, Fiduciary Duty And Negligence: Investor Scores Rare Win In Deutsche Bank V Chang, Kee Yang Low
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Law reports of the last decade are littered with unsuccessful suits by investors against their banks for negligent or unsuitable advice. Rarely do investors succeed. This is despite the wide array of courses of action available, allowing them to sue for breaches by the bank of contractual duty (in particular, through misrepresentation), duty of care, statutory duty and fiduciary duty.
Managing Regulatory Arbitrage: An Alternative To Harmonization, Annelise Riles
Managing Regulatory Arbitrage: An Alternative To Harmonization, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This policy-oriented article argues for deploying conflict of laws doctrines as a tool of coordination in international financial governance.
Striking The Right Balance: Investor And Consumer Protection In The New Financial Marketplace: Introduction, Lisa Fairfax, Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr
Striking The Right Balance: Investor And Consumer Protection In The New Financial Marketplace: Introduction, Lisa Fairfax, Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr
All Faculty Scholarship
On March 2, 2012, The George Washington University Law School's Center for Law, Economics & Finance and The George Washington Law Review jointly hosted a symposium entitled "Striking the Right Balance: Investor and Consumer Protection in the New Financial Marketplace."' The symposium focused on two principal topics. First, participants analyzed the impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank") on investors and consumers in three areas of federal regulation-securities markets, derivatives markets, and consumer financial products. Second, the symposium evaluated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("Sarbanes-Oxley") on its tenth anniversary and considered whether Sarbanes-Oxley's legacy might …
Judicial Deference And Institutional Character: Homeowners Associations And The Puzzle Of Private Governance, Michael C. Pollack
Judicial Deference And Institutional Character: Homeowners Associations And The Puzzle Of Private Governance, Michael C. Pollack
Articles
Much of the study of judicial review of governing institutions focuses on the institutions of public government at the federal, state, and local levels. But the courts' relationship with private government is in critical need of similar examination, and of a coherent framework within which to conduct it. This Article uses the lens of homeowners associations-a particularly ubiquitous form of private government-to construct and employ such a framework. Specifically, this Article proceeds from the premise that judicial deference is less appropriate the more unaccountable a governing institution is, and therefore develops a set of tests for institutional accountability. Applied to …
Dismantling Large Bank Holding Companies For Their Own Good And For The Good Of The Country, Tamar Frankel
Dismantling Large Bank Holding Companies For Their Own Good And For The Good Of The Country, Tamar Frankel
Faculty Scholarship
This paper suggests that bank holding companies are in fact “financial malls.” I demonstrates the problems that they pose for the financial system, not only by size but by inefficient and inappropriate concentration. The article suggests restructuring of bank holding companies by introducing more market discipline to the various “shops” in the mall as well as concentrating services for the purpose of efficiency. The Article concludes with suggestion that rather than imposing a restructure by law it may perhaps be possible to entice managements that look to the long-term future to follow a restructure voluntarily.
The Modern Corporation Magnified: Managerial Accountability In Financial Services Holding Companies, Anita Krug
The Modern Corporation Magnified: Managerial Accountability In Financial Services Holding Companies, Anita Krug
All Faculty Scholarship
This Article first recalls the primary contours of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means’s acclaimed observations regarding the separation of ownership and control in the “modern corporation,” as well as their conclusions about the implications of those observations for the doctrine of shareholder primacy. Second, the Article describes how the activities of FSHCs generally differ from what we think corporations do and, certainly, from what Berle and Means conceived of as the purpose of corporations or, indeed, any business enterprise. Third, this Article articulates how those business activities render more acute the problem of the separation of ownership and control that …
Conceptions Of Corporate Purpose In Post-Crisis Financial Firms, Christopher M. Bruner
Conceptions Of Corporate Purpose In Post-Crisis Financial Firms, Christopher M. Bruner
Scholarly Works
American "populism" has had a major impact on the development of U.S. corporate governance throughout its history. Specifically, appeals to the perceived interests of average working people have exerted enormous social and political influence over prevailing conceptions of corporate purpose - the aims toward which society expects corporate decision-making to be directed. This article assesses the impact of American populism upon prevailing conceptions of corporate purpose - contrasting its unique expression in the context of financial firms with that arising in other contexts - and then examines its impact upon corporategovernance reforms enacted in the wake of the financial and …
Revolution In Manipulation Law: The New Cftc Rules And The Urgent Need For Economic And Empirical Analyses, Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, Gabriel V. Rauterberg, Andrew Verstein
Revolution In Manipulation Law: The New Cftc Rules And The Urgent Need For Economic And Empirical Analyses, Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, Gabriel V. Rauterberg, Andrew Verstein
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Three major banks have now admitted that their employees manipulated worldwide interest rates through the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), the most widely used interest rate index. Libor is the interest rate term for trillions of dollars of swaps and loans, and its manipulation may have been used to extract billions of dollars. These allegations come just as commodities manipulation law has been dramatically reformed and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) given vast new regulatory powers. This Article provides the first extended, scholarly analysis of the CFTC’s new anti-manipulation rules. We consider the difficulty the rules address: Commodities manipulation …
The Potential Cost And Value Of Erm, Michelle M. Harner
The Potential Cost And Value Of Erm, Michelle M. Harner
Faculty Scholarship
The concept of enterprise risk managment (ERM) as a holistic approach to managing a company's risk profile has tremendous appeal. However, companies are frequently skeptical about its value and whether the results will justify the cost, effort, and challenges of implementing a meaningful ERM process. This report considers some of those concerns and highlights the governance, compliance, and cultural value of ERM.
Domestic Bank Regulation In A Global Environment - A Comparative Dialogue, Robert C. Hockett
Domestic Bank Regulation In A Global Environment - A Comparative Dialogue, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Zappers & Employment Tax Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Zappers & Employment Tax Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
Beyond the grey area of worker misclassifications and general employment tax irregularities there are darker employment relationships where workers are intentionally paid in cash “off-the-books” or “under-the-table.” Grey employment relationships present civil enforcement issues that may become criminal; darker-relationships are criminal from the beginning. Zappers are found on the dark side.
Zappers are fraud-technologies that automatically (and remotely) skim cash from electronic cash registers (ECRs) or back room point of sales (POS) systems. Globally, tax auditors are finding that Zappers frequently provide the cash that is used to compensate “under-the-table” workers. In fact, a Zapper appears to be at the …
Restricted Investment In Private Equity: The Volcker Rule's Incursion Into Banking?, Manasa Reddy Gummi
Restricted Investment In Private Equity: The Volcker Rule's Incursion Into Banking?, Manasa Reddy Gummi
Cornell Law School LL.M. Student Research Papers
Investment in private equity originally came from individual investors and corporations. However, over the years institutional investors have become prominent in the investor pool with the hope of achieving risk adjusted returns. Banks have become significant sources of funds in the private equity market. Bank affiliate groups account for a significant share of the private equity activity as well as the banks’ own capital. A distinct feature of a leveraged buyout by a private equity firm as opposed to strategic buyouts and other transactions is the significant reliance on debt financing. Typically, shell companies with substantially no assets would be …
Bank Recapitalizations: A Comparative Perspective, Da Lin
Bank Recapitalizations: A Comparative Perspective, Da Lin
Law Faculty Publications
We have been here before. No matter how different the latest financial frenzy or crisis always appears, there are usually remarkable similarities with past experience from other countries and from history.
Punishing Bad Brokers: Self-Regulation And Finra Sanctions, Barbara Black
Punishing Bad Brokers: Self-Regulation And Finra Sanctions, Barbara Black
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Regulation of the broker-dealer industry by a self-regulatory organization (SRO) is an integral part of the federal regulatory scheme under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act). As a result, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the sole SRO for U.S. broker-dealers, plays an important role in protecting investors, especially retail investors, and bolstering investor confidence in the securities industry and capital markets. In 2012 FINRA brought 1,541 disciplinary actions against registered individuals and firms, levied fines totaling more than $68 million and ordered restitution of $34 million. It expelled 30 firms, barred 294 individuals and suspended another …
Dirty Remics, Revisited, David J. Reiss, Bradley T. Borden
Dirty Remics, Revisited, David J. Reiss, Bradley T. Borden
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Improving Retirement Savings Options For Employees, James Kwak
Improving Retirement Savings Options For Employees, James Kwak
Faculty Articles and Papers
Americans do not save enough for retirement. One reason is that our retirement savings accounts — whether employer-sponsored defined-contribution plans such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts — are heavily invested in actively managed mutual funds that siphon off tens of billions of dollars in fees every year yet deliver returns that trail the overall market. Under existing law, as interpreted by the courts, mutual funds may charge high fees to investors, and companies may offer expensive, active funds to their employees. This paper argues that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act should be reinterpreted, in light of basic …
Rethinking U.S. Investment Adviser Regulation, Anita Krug
Rethinking U.S. Investment Adviser Regulation, Anita Krug
All Faculty Scholarship
(Excerpt)Now, in the aftermath of Dodd-Frank's enactment and the SEC's associated bout of rulemaking, one might think that the Advisers Act's regulatory regime is a workable and effective one, equipped to address - and address efficiently - the investor-protection risks that the twenty-first-century investment adviser industry produces. In fact, however, Dodd-Frank did not touch - and, indeed, Dodd-Frank's crafters indicated no awareness of - many of the Advisers Act's longstanding troubles. Additionally, the changes Dodd-Frank brought about have their own considerable deficiencies. As this Article contends, the U.S. investment adviser regulatory regime, now seventy-four years old, is in need of …
Professor: Bank Rules Still Not Tough Enough, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Professor: Bank Rules Still Not Tough Enough, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
The Field In Ireland In 2014, Tom Dunne
The Field In Ireland In 2014, Tom Dunne
Articles
Repossessions are an important part of recovery in the housing market
A Good Name: Applying Regulatory Takings Analysis To Reputational Damage Caused By Criminal History, Jamila Jefferson-Jones
A Good Name: Applying Regulatory Takings Analysis To Reputational Damage Caused By Criminal History, Jamila Jefferson-Jones
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Checking Out Of The Exception To 3-104: Why Parties Should Be Able To Negotiate Whether Checks Should Be Payable On Demand, 3 Colum. J. Race & L. 73 (2013), Linda R. Crane
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
Many aspects of American society, including its legal system, operate to the disadvantage of minorities. Obvious examples include inequities in our criminal/justice system and in school funding. Much has been written on those and other topics. This article focuses on another example, specifically on how a sweeping change to an obscure banking rule regulating the check collection process has negatively affected consumers in general, and minority groups in particular.
U.S. check collections require a complex system comprised of a variety of institutions including commercial banks, savings and loans, savings banks, and credit unions, as well as the customers who rely …
Conceptions Of Corporate Purpose In Post-Crisis Financial Firms, Christopher M. Bruner
Conceptions Of Corporate Purpose In Post-Crisis Financial Firms, Christopher M. Bruner
Scholarly Articles
American "populism" has had a major impact on the development of U.S. corporate governance throughout its history. Specifically, appeals to the perceived interests of average working people have exerted enormous social and political influence over prevailing conceptions of corporate purpose - the aims toward which society expects corporate decision-making to be directed. This article assesses the impact of American populism upon prevailing conceptions of corporate purpose - contrasting its unique expression in the context of financial firms with that arising in other contexts - and then examines its impact upon corporate governance reforms enacted in the wake of the financial …
Inequality, Individualized Risk & Insecurity, Michael J. Zimmer
Inequality, Individualized Risk & Insecurity, Michael J. Zimmer
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation, And ‘Too Big To Fail,’, Charles W. Murdock
The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation, And ‘Too Big To Fail,’, Charles W. Murdock
Faculty Publications & Other Works
The U.S. economy is still reeling from the financial crisis that exploded in the fall of 2008. This Article asserts that the big banks were major culprits in causing the crisis by funding the non-bank lenders that created the toxic mortgages, which the big banks securitized and sold to unwary investors. Ironically, banks that were then too big to fail are even larger today.
The Article briefly reviews the history of banking from the Founding Fathers to the deregulatory mindset that has been present since 1980. It then traces the impact of deregulation, which led to the savings and loan …
Credit Default Swaps: Dubious Instruments, Charles W. Murdock
Credit Default Swaps: Dubious Instruments, Charles W. Murdock
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Bretton Woods 1.0: A Constructive Retrieval For Sustainable Finance, Robert C. Hockett
Bretton Woods 1.0: A Constructive Retrieval For Sustainable Finance, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Global trade imbalance and domestic financial fragility are intimately related. When a nation runs persistently massive current account deficits to maintain global liquidity as has the United States now for decades, its central bank effectively relinquishes exchange rate flexibility to become a de facto central bank to the world. That in turn prevents the bank from playing its essential credit-modulatory role at home, at least absent strict capital controls that are difficult to administer and have long been taboo. And this can in turn render credit-fueled asset price bubbles and busts all but impossible to prevent, irrespective of the nation's …
How Tax Increment Financing (Tif) Districts Correlate With Taxable Properties, Randall K. Johnson
How Tax Increment Financing (Tif) Districts Correlate With Taxable Properties, Randall K. Johnson
Faculty Works
This article deals with Tax Increment Financing (TIF), which is a popular economic development tool. TIF borrows against future tax revenues to subsidize current development projects. In Illinois, this economic development tool is justified by its promise to expand the local tax base: by increasing tax revenues, increasing the number of tax payers or increasing the number of taxable properties in the area. However, it is not clear that TIF delivers on its promise. A new dataset, which is introduced in this article, helps to clarify the issue. It does so by providing information about the number of TIF Districts …
Introduction To Mobile Money In Developing Countries: Financial Inclusion And Financial Integrity Conference Special Issue, Jane K. Winn, Louis De Koker
Introduction To Mobile Money In Developing Countries: Financial Inclusion And Financial Integrity Conference Special Issue, Jane K. Winn, Louis De Koker
Articles
This special issue of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts contains papers contributed to a conference held at the University of Washington School of Law on April 20, 2012. The conference, entitled Mobile Money in Developing Countries: Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity, was organized by the University of Washington School of Law with the support of the Linden Rhoads Dean’s Innovation Fund, Deakin University School of Law, Australia, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
The conference provided an early opportunity to analyze the impact of the newly-released revised 2012 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) …
The Problem Of Holdout Creditors In Eurozone Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Mitu Gulati, Lee C. Buchheit, Ignacio Tirado
The Problem Of Holdout Creditors In Eurozone Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Mitu Gulati, Lee C. Buchheit, Ignacio Tirado
Faculty Scholarship
The Eurozone official sector has declared that the belated restructuring of Greek bonds held by private sector creditors in 2012 was a “unique and exceptional” event, never, ever to be repeated in any other Eurozone country. Maybe so. But if this assurance proves in time to be as fragile as the official sector’s prior pronouncements on the subject of “private sector involvement” in Eurozone sovereign debt problems, any future Eurozone debt restructuring will be surely plagued by the problem of non-participating creditors --- holdouts. Indeed, it is the undisguised fear of holdouts and the prospect of a messy, Argentine-style debt …