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Securitizing Digital Debts, Christopher K. Odinet Jun 2020

Securitizing Digital Debts, Christopher K. Odinet

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The promise of financial technology (“fintech”) and artificial intelligence (“AI”) in broadening access to financial products and services continues to capture the imagination of policymakers, Wall Street, and the public. This has been particularly true in the realm of fintech credit where platform companies increasingly provide online loans to consumers, students, and small businesses by harnessing AI underwriting and alternative data. In 2019 alone fintech lenders represented nearly 50% of total non-credit card, unsecured consumer loan balances in the United States. One of the most prevalent ways fintech credit firms operate is by securitizing the online loans they help originate. …


The Great Bailout Of 2008-09, Frederick Tung Jan 2009

The Great Bailout Of 2008-09, Frederick Tung

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My task today is to talk about the financial crisis. I only have a short time to talk, so rather than try to give you a comprehensive analysis of events, I'm going to offer some of my own idiosyncratic takes on what has been happening. In addition, I will introduce my own small reform proposal for regulating bank risk taking. So, I'll give you a little bit of news, a little bit of weather, a little bit of everything.

Where are we now? Let us begin with a statement Henry Paulson made six months ago while Bear Steams was getting …