Demands for provisions to stop currency manipulation by foreign governments have become central to the congressional debate over proposed trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment...

Americans are standing on the cusp of a revolution in how we access and use money, a revolution that could make our economic lives more secure and our economy more robust. Just as e-commerce freed merchants and customers from geographic...

Written Testimony of Chris Brummer, J.D., Ph.D. Senate Banking Committee Wednesday, July 8, 2015 What’s in it for the United States? On the Constitutionality and Legitimacy of the Financial Stability Board (and International Financial...

On July 8, 2015, James R. Barth testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit on the designation and regulation of Bank Holding Company systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs)...

Marketplace lending is helping hundreds of thousands of consumers save money, refinance debt, and obtain credit on better terms than previously possible. While the industry has made do under the current system, an outdated legal and...

Lessons from California for Asian entrepreneurs and start-ups In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation need not be limited to one side of the Pacific Ocean. Advances are clearly happening all around the Pacific Rim. But Asia...

WASHINGTON - Banks and technology firms have a complex relationship, one that wavers between working as partners and seeing each other as potential rivals. But it is being tested lately as banks spotlight what they see as lax regulation for...

The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Department of the Treasury regarding expanding access to credit through online marketplace lending. In its September 28, 2015 letter, CFM made a series...

When a borrower receives a so-called “payday loan,” he or she writes a check that is postdated to the next payday or signs over permission for the lender to make an electronic withdrawal of the amount borrowed, plus fees, on that day...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2019 – Reforms are needed to bring transparency and accountability to proxy advisory firms, whose advice to institutional investors influence the outcome of shareholder votes on matters like executive pay, acquisitions...