Power Player Profiles

Power Player Profile: William Dudley

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the lynchpin of the U.S. central bank system – it is the agent for all central bank market operations, the regulator for some of the biggest bank holding companies, and its head is vice chairman of the committee that decides monetary policy.

Power Player Profile: Scott Garrett

In an exclusive interview with FinReg21 Congressman Scott Garrett, a ranking member of the House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets, shares insights about the future of regulatory reform, the agenda of the Obama administration, and the proposed CFPA.

New faces, new places: Gary Gensler gets chance to make CFTC a contender

(Fourth of 4 in a special series on financial regulators to watch) 

It could be one of major ironies of the current reform effort if Gary Gensler turns out to be the chairman that makes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a contender as a serious regulatory agency.

New faces, new places: Financial Stability Board expansion upgrades Mario Draghi

(Third of 4 in a special series on financial regulators to watch) 

The expanded FSB will get a full-time secretary general and a staff in the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. The chairman remains the same – Mario Draghi, whose day job is governor of the Italian central bank and who now becomes one of the most powerful financial regulators in the world.

New faces, new places: Lawyer Daniel Tarullo brings regulatory firepower to Fed board

(Second of 4 in a special series on financial regulators to watch) 

When President-elect Barack Obama needed someone trustworthy to represent him at the Group of 20 summit in Washington during the awkward period after the election and before the inauguration, he sent Georgetown law professor Daniel Tarullo to meet on the sidelines with the heads of state, who were curious about the new administration.

New faces, new places: Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren poised to head planned agency

(First of 4 in a special series on financial regulators to watch) 

Warren, a Harvard law professor and longtime consumer advocate, likes to say that consumers have more protection for toasters they buy than the products they invest their life savings in.

Will Obama’s top economic adviser make history or be history?

Destiny seems to have pushed Larry Summers to the pinnacle of policymaking. The son of two economists and nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics, Summers entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at age 16 and became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard’s history at age 28. But controversy has dogged Summers throughout his meteoric career

What makes Big Ben tick?

No, not the clock in London’s Westminster Palace – but Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Bernanke pulled the veil aside, however, in a recent commencement speech at Boston College Law School. Addressing the graduates, he mused on the unpredictability of life, drawing on his own experience to illustrate his point.

Tenacious New York lawmaker lost her bid to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate but is poised to achieve victory as the author of the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights as it wends it way to the White House before Memorial Day.

Mary Schapiro has not made everyone happy as she made her way up the ladder of financial regulation to become in January the first woman to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.