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The Usefulness of Hedge Fund Post-Mortems
Posted: Monday, May 7, 2007
The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee endorses the establishment of a procedure in which substantial hedge fund failures are automatically subject to forensic examination.
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The SEC’s Proposed Prohibition of Notching
Posted: Monday, May 7, 2007
The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee comments on the SEC's proposed rules implementing provisions of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.
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The Proposed Merger of Principal U.S. Futures Exchanges
Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Shadow Committee believes that, in the current environment of intense global competition, reinforcing the stability of the financial system and ensuring continuing incentives to innovate are vastly more important in the long run than the minor impact that the proposed merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade is likely to have on the ability of other futures exchanges or over-the-counter products to compete in the short term with the newly combined entity.
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Facilitating Bank Failure Resolution
Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007
How important is it that the FDIC has the capability to handle a large bank failure with a prompt payout to depositors or a transfer of funds to a bridge bank?
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The FDIC's ILC Moratorium
Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007
What will the effect be of the FDIC's decision to extend the moratorium on the approval of new applications by nonfinancial companies to charter or acquire ILCs?
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The Competitiveness of U.S. Securities Markets
Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007
Regulatory and litigation reforms are necessary to create a more hospitable environment for financial transactions in the United States.
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Basel II: One-and-a-Half Cheers for the Standardized Approach
Posted: Monday, December 4, 2006
The Shadow Committee continues to believe that including an appropriate subordinated debt requirement in Tier 1 capital is a superior approach to the measures prescribed by the Basel II Accord.
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A Financial Agenda for the New Congress
Posted: Monday, December 4, 2006
With the change of leadership in the incoming Congress, the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee believes it would be useful to review and reiterate some financial agenda items that the Committee has considered at this and past meetings.
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Shareholder Access to Director Elections
Posted: Monday, December 4, 2006
The Committee believes there would be considerable potential benefit for the economy if shareholders were able more easily to elect directors who are committed to better corporate performance, but not if the result would merely be to facilitate the use of the election process by small groups of shareholders more interested in promoting their personal causes than in enhancing the value and performance of the firm.
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Risks of Bank Concentration in Commercial Real Estate Lending
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006
The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee supports the federal banking authorities’ jointly issued Guidance on “Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.”
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