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John T Lynch

2007

Regulation

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Credit Derivatives: Industry Initiative Supplants Need For Direct Regulatory Intervention. A Model For The Future Of U.S. Regulation?, John T. Lynch Mar 2007

Credit Derivatives: Industry Initiative Supplants Need For Direct Regulatory Intervention. A Model For The Future Of U.S. Regulation?, John T. Lynch

John T Lynch

A brief introduction to credit derivatives and the current state of the market is given as a means of orienting the reader to the complexity and evolving importance of these financial instruments. This comment then offers a detailed survey of the recent developments in the credit derivatives market from 2005-2006, focusing on the initiative by the market participants that were called to action by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This model of shifting market control to the private sector is then explored as a central tenet of a revised U.S. financial regulatory structure, proposed in this comment as …