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Twenty five years ago, Ji Heng (MBA ’39), a Chinese national, made a special visit to Soldiers Field. A senior official at the Bank of China (BOC), Mr. Ji had returned to the School to renew old ties, as China was opening up and reaching... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Offices of Bank Holding Companies

01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

financial stability in countries worldwide—information that researchers hope could help prevent a potential crisis. Regulations have also helped enforce resiliency, including a measure forcing banks to hold... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims

THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

23 Mar 2023
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SVB Crash Analysis

collapse rocks Washington and Wall Street. More Turbulence Likely Ahead After Bank Collapses Former US Treasury secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers says regulators have significant tools at their... View Details

29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?

President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Government

18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A

and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life

done on mobile devices, and social media services like WeChat are leading the way. The big question is, how are the banks going to respond? In China, where banks are less regulated, they are starting to... View Details

Keywords: Omer Ismail (MBA 2007), chief commercial officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the firm’s digital consumer financial services business; Finance

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

scholars from HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and the Department of Economics, the BFFS Project is led by Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at HBS. “There has long been a significant... View Details

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The High Price of Safer Banks

How to take moral hazard out of banking

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A Firm Hand and Fewer Delays

When people introduced UK Sinha as SBI Chief

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Looking Back As We Look Forward

Back to Basics on Financial Reform

Whalen: Dow Should Give Money Back to Shareholders

Disclose the fair value of complex securities

Harvard Business School Faculty on the Dodd-Frank U.S. Financial Reform Legislation

Don’t Scare the Bankers