Oxford Business Law Blog

A recurring theme in banking crises is the public backlash against bank supervisors for their failure to take prompt and decisive action to unearth and correct problems of weak banks. The latest...

Much of the literature on the Global Financial Crisis understandably focuses on contributors to that crisis, such as rampant deception within the American mortgage markets, or the creation of complex...

In the next month, the US Treasury Department is expected to decide whether to seek to replace the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s regulator-led process for resolving failed mega-banks with a solely court-...

The security of communication networks and databases has become a main element of national security and economic competitiveness. Constant growth in information systems, financial technology and e-...

Last week a Utah federal judge ruled that a provision of Dodd-Frank[1] authorizes the US Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’) to bring fraud claims concerning securities bought or sold entirely...

From the late 1990s through 2008, the United States experienced the largest boom-and- bust cycle in its securities and housing markets since the “Roaring Twenties” and the Great Depression. Scholars...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, more and more countries have begun to embrace whistleblower protections as a tool to change corporate cultures. Such provisions may give whistleblowers the...

This post comes to us from Robert C. Fleder, David S. Huntington, Marco V. Masotti, Elizabeth M. Sacksteder, Reuven Falik, Frances F. Mi and David S. Lightstone of Paul Weiss. On April 21, 2016,...

In accordance with Dodd-Frank Act requirements, US federal agencies last week proposed rules to prohibit compensation structures that encourage excessive risk taking by financial institutions...

In the field of banking and financial regulation, the past five years have been nothing short of a revolution. In particular, a key methodological and epistemological change that recently occurred...

Every few years over the last several decades, Congress has been faced with the question of how to best regulate corporate financial activities. In the late 1970’s, concern for bribery overseas by...

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer has struck down the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) designation of the insurer MetLife Inc. as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI...