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    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      US interest rates
      Higher rates for longer are a good thing

      The era of zero interest policy was characterised by sluggish growth and yawning wealth inequality

      FT montage of a US eagle, a pile of dollar bills and a chart line pointing upwards
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      On Wall StreetUS financial regulation
      The truth about proposed bank capital rules

      New measures are an important step to protect the US and world economies against future financial crises

    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      Markets InsightFederal Reserve
      The Fed needs to stay put on rates

      With inflation falling, further tightening of monetary policy only heightens the risk of recession and financial instability

      The Federal Reserve building in Washington
    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      US banks
      Congress must act to protect smaller banks from investor nerves

      Measures to shield operational business accounts, introduced during Covid, should be triggered urgently

      The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation  building in Washington DC
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      US regulators are setting a dangerous precedent on SVB

      The FDIC seems to think the banking system is more fragile than it really is

      The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation headquarters in Washington
    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      InterviewUS financial regulation
      Sheila Bair: ‘I feel for the regulators. You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t’

      The US banking expert discusses distorted interest rates and the dangers of the ‘shadow’ banking sector

      Cartoonized drawing of Sheila Bair and Brooke Masters
    • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
      Cryptocurrencies
      Crypto should be regulated with existing law, says former FDIC head

      Sheila Bair says collapse of FTX shows danger of US agencies waiting for legislation to protect investors

      Sheila Bair
    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Federal Reserve
      The Fed must emulate the tactics of Volcker’s fight against inflation

      Jay Powell mirrors the former Fed chair’s bravery but not his methods

      Paul Volcker stands with hands on hips and smokes a cigar during a Fed meeting in Washington in 1982
    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Markets InsightStablecoins
      Regulate stablecoins. Please!

      It is time for regulators to get creative and use their current powers to act

      The Terra Twitter page on a laptop computer
    • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
      Markets InsightFederal Deposit Insurance Corp
      How financial regulation can be made less partisan

      The reforms that could improve decision making at agencies like the FDIC

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      Markets InsightFinancial & markets regulation
      Regulators must act to rein in Wall Street risks as rates rise

      The Fed needs to reverse course on regulatory easing to ensure financial stability when borrowing costs increase

      Wall Street sign
    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      Markets InsightUS equities
      SEC needs to find a way to curb payment for order flow

      It’s not clear whether PFOF reduces costs for retail investors, or simply makes their costs less transparent

      Bernard Madoff
    • Sunday, 22 March, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Force global banks to suspend bonuses and payouts

      This simple step would free up trillions of dollars of additional lending capacity

    • Monday, 27 January, 2020
      Inside BusinessRobert Armstrong
      Debate on ‘too big to fail’ needs reframing

      Deposits at largest US banks keep growing organically even with controls on expanding by acquisition

      Brian Moynihan, chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp., gestures as he speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policy makers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 - 24. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Sunday, 13 October, 2019
      Financial services
      Former FDIC head criticises financial company sold to Blackstone

      Promontory’s business model ‘games’ deposit insurance rules, says Sheila Bair

      FILE PHOTO: Signs explaining the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and other banking policies are shown on the counter of a bank in Westminster, Colorado, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD
    • Monday, 1 October, 2018
      UK politics lobbying
      The US must hold firm on bank capital rules

      Former FDIC chief argues that if the Fed waters down its demands, others will follow

      Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), swears in to a hearing of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. U.S. regulators can prevent a repeat of the financial crisis that toppled Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. if they fully apply new authority granted by lawmakers, Bair said. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
    • Monday, 26 February, 2018
      US financial regulation
      Watchdog warns of gaps in US financial regulation

      Systemic Risk Council calls for focus on markets as well as banks and intermediaries

      Paul Tucker says policy should 'depend on the facts rather than on a doctrinal commitment'
    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2016
      Financial services
      Sheila Bair joins fintech and pensions wave

      Former FDIC chair becomes adviser to start-up Blooom

      Sheila Bair...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Sheila Bair is interviewed by The Associated Press, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, in her Washington office. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
    • Thursday, 7 April, 2016
      US & Canadian companies
      Marketplace lenders establish trade body

      Funding Circle, Lending Club and Prosper form united front against closer regulation

    • Friday, 1 April, 2016
      US & Canadian companies
      Sheila Bair to join board of online lender Avant

      Former FDIC head is latest Wall Street name to move into alternative lending world

      Sheila Bair...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Sheila Bair is interviewed by The Associated Press, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, in her Washington office. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
    • Wednesday, 9 December, 2015
      Global Economy
      Former BoE deputy Sir Paul Tucker to chair US advocacy group

      Briton vows to keep up pressure for financial reform as chair of Systemic Risk Council

      Paul Tucker, former deputy governor at the Bank of England
    • Tuesday, 10 November, 2015
      US & Canadian companies
      US banks said to hold $10tn of ‘risky’ trades

      Democrats say repeal of part of Dodd-Frank leaves economy exposed

      Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Roosevelt Institute event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Warren, who says Wall Street recklessness caused the 2008 financial crisis, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is seeking to become a national leader for progressives, introduced a study by Joseph Stiglitz suggesting that new regulations could curb the flow of gains to the wealthiest and most powerful. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Elizabeth Warren
    • Thursday, 30 July, 2015
      US financial regulation
      Ex-US banking regulator Bair resigns from Santander

      Former FDIC chief leaving to concentrate on college president role

      WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 17: (L-R) Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, speaks while Mary Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, listen during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, on February 17, 2011 in Washington, DC. The committee is getting a half-year progress report from regulators on oversight of Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform implementation.  (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Gary Gensler;Mary Schapiro;Sheila Bair
    • Monday, 11 May, 2015
      FTfmMartin Sandbu
      Free Lunch: Women sheriffs of Wall Street

      Criticism of financial practice and regulation must be heeded

    • Tuesday, 3 March, 2015
      US & Canadian companies
      US Federal Reserve urged to clarify bank capital requirements

      Systemic Risk Council chair Bair says openness is needed to win support

      A view of the US Federal Reserve January 27, 2015 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO / KAREN BLEIER
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