About us

The collapse of the world’s financial markets has surfaced an immediate need for regulatory restructuring and reform for the banking, securities, and insurance sectors. Various regulatory proposals are already being circulated in academic and public policy circles. Governments around the world are considering reforms. The conversation and decisions surrounding these proposals will fundamentally impact how financial services is structured and conducted across the globe throughout the 21st century.

A Platform for Discussion and Debate

FinReg21 is a non‐partisan online media entity developed for, and by, those involved in or affected by financial services regulation. Launched in beta in late March 2009, FinReg21 is a platform for community members to express a diverse set of opinions, and to allow the community itself to drive the discussion. FinReg21’s Editor is David S. Evans, who works with a global team of contributors under the guidance of an editorial board of experts who hail from academia, government, and the private sector.

Where the Best Minds Gather

FinReg21 was designed to be a resource to everyone with a stake in financial services regulatory reform and its outcome. That includes academics who help guide the process: legislators and support staffs who work toward reform; consumer advocacy organizations that focus on the financial industry; pension funds, and financial institutions and the various legal, accounting, and management teams who advise them. Because FinReg21 has adiverse group of contributors, content will be useful to a broad audience.

Interactive, Intelligent …and Original

FinReg21 is a publisher of original content from some of the best minds in this field, as well an aggregator of the most timely and relevant material from around the world. FinReg21 captures breaking news, produces daily thought‐provoking commentary, podcasts and other audio and video discussions, features a resource library of important papers and presentations, and produces a weekly online journal with original articles by leading experts. FinReg21 hosts a weekly “pundit pit” with the newsmakers at the center of this historic discussion and FinReg21’s “who’s who” network features profiles of those who come to the site and offers a platform for networking and idea exchange.

An Experienced Team

FinReg21 is a joint venture between two leaders in the online media space: Sift and Market Platform Dynamics. Sift is a global technology provider and publisher of a number of leading online business and professional communities including AccountingWEB, the first port of call for over 90,000 accounting professionals in the United Kingdom looking for expert advice, information, and networking opportunities. Market Platform Dynamics (MPD) is a management consulting firm which helps businesses profit from industry disruption. MPD provides business advice to many financial services and digital media enterprises and invests in and advises startups through its Catalyst Ventures subsidiary.