Who Should Tax International Income? Featuring Keynote Remarks by Lafayette “Chip” Harter Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Tax Affairs) U.S. Treasury (invited) Friday, February 1st, 2019 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Join Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) and … Continue Reading
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My new article with Roll Call on EU regulation of crypto assets
I enjoyed assisting Roll Call with the coverage of two pivotal reports on European cryptoasset regulation that were released today and set the stage to create a separate “bespoke” regime for cryptoassets that are not currently subject to regulation in … Continue Reading
New fintech coverage by fintechpolicy.org
FintechPolicy.org, an online portal for news and analysis of global regulatory developments in financial technology, officially launched in the latter days of December 2018. The site will be the first website of its kind to focus on policy across an increasingly expansive fintech ecosystem. … Continue Reading
Happy New Year!
Thanks to everyone who helped to make 2018 about as intellectually engaging as this academic could hope for. Light blogging continues through next week! (And here’s to fintechpolicy.org for the new facelift on the site as well as @fintech_policy).
My podcast interview with CFTCTalks
I had the pleasure of joining @CFTC’s podcast, #CFTCTalks, where I discussed everything from what international trade and fintech surprisingly have in common, to regulating cryptocurrencies and blockchain, to the recent Fintech Week here in DC. The conversation can be … Continue Reading
New Story on Fintech Week, IIEL
Courtesy of Georgetown Law, the story can be found here: Advances in financial technology are changing market and regulatory ecosystems in ways unimaginable a generation ago. These new developments offer exciting opportunities as well as enormous challenges — and Georgetown … Continue Reading
University of Barcelona Announces Call for papers on the Legal, political and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things
The University of Barcelona, via the Bioethics & Law Observatory, is opening a call for papers on Legal, political and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things. Contributions can be submitted until December 1st 2018. Submissions are accepted on all … Continue Reading
Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles delivered keynote remarks at a Brookings Institution event on monetary policy and financial regulation. He outlined the core elements and proposed changes to the central bank’s stress testing program, which measures whether financial firms have enough money … Continue Reading
Equivalence doesn’t get post-Brexit Britain very much, apparently
Bloomberg does a great piece examining the limited good of equivalence for post-Brexit UK financial regulation: While the three paragraphs of text on services [in Theresa May’s planned deal with the EU] are optimistic, they can’t be dressed up as a … Continue Reading
My Brookings (C-span) remarks on bank stress tests, fintech and more
This morning I had the pleasure of speaking at Brookings on a panel after a speech delivered by Randall Quarles, the Vice Chairman of Supervision for the Federal Reserve. The purpose of Quarles’s speech was to unveil a new approach … Continue Reading