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Can the ownership and governance structure of a central bank affect its institutional activities? Who benefits from a central bank’s assets and operating results and how does it impact its...

What makes a central bank ‘independent?’. As most central bank scholars and policy-makers would likely answer that question, ‘it depends’—it depends on the bank, the function it is performing, and...

When it comes to responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., the Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most active institutions at the national level. Its bold and timely interventions...

A question I am asked as frequently as any other is: 'Why didn’t anyone go to jail for the financial crisis?' There was huge suffering, sufficient misbehavior that the largest banks had to pay well...

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 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...

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...