Press Releases

February 6, 2023: ICE/BKI Merger Found to Pose Systemic, Consumer-Welfare, Market-Integrity Risk…

March 11, 2020: Statement by Karen Petrou: What the Fed Should, Can Do ASAP to Reduce COVID-19 Macro Risk – Emergency Liquidity for Hard-Hit Households, Small Business.

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August 16, 2019: Federal Financial Analytics and Treliant Form Unprecedented Alliance Bridging Policy Analytics and Compliance Expertise

June 25, 2019: New FedFin Paper: Analytical Assessment of the Credit-Union Equality Commitment

January 7, 2019: FedFin’s New Economic Equality Blog Post on U.S. Inequality Poses Grave 2019 Financial-Crisis Risk…

September 18, 2017: New FedFin Issue Brief: How the Fed’s Portfolio Exacerbates Economic Inequality

August 16, 2017:  New FedFin Issue Brief: How to Settle the OCC v. FDIC Charter War

June 14, 2017: New Study Shows Risks of Complex U.S. Capital Requirements

May 4, 2017: Financial Reform 2.0 and the Future of U.S. Finance

May 3, 2017: New FedFin Paper: What the Fed Should Do to Improve U.S. Economic Equality

March 2, 2017: Capital Rules v. Credit? New Paper Shows How Rules Hurt Main Street Borrowers

February 9, 2017: “American First” Protectionism Threatens Cross-Border Finance, New Paper Finds…

December 20, 2016: New Study Finds that Fed Interest on Excess Reserves is Necessary for Stability until Recovery is Assured

November 3, 2016: Fed Must Act Fast to Address Income Inequality

September 30, 2016: Simple Capital for Complex Operational Risk Weakens Resilience, FedFin Study Finds

September 22, 2016: 2017 Bank M&A Forecast: Charting a Post-Election Path to Profit

September 19, 2016: First-Time Study: How FRB Monetary Policies Worsen U.S. Income Inequality

May 18, 2016: New Study is First to Assess Cumulative Impact of U.S. Financial Reforms…

• October 28, 2015: Petrou Calls on State Insurance Regulators to Build Systemic-Resolution Framework
• October 7, 2015: The New Systemic Risk: Structural Market Change Flummoxes Monetary-Policy Transmission, Effective Regulation
• September 8, 2015: When Depositors Pay Banks and Banks Pay Borrowers: New Report Analyzes the Financial-Stability Risk of Negative Interest Rates
• August 6, 2015: FedFin White Paper on The Consequences of Systemic Regulation for U.S. Regional Banks
• August 4, 2015 – FedFin Releases White Paper: Market and Policy Implications of Limited Custody-Bank Deposit Capacity Show Heightened Risk, Long-Term Structural Challenge
• April 29, 2015 – New Study: Market Illiquidity, Flash Crashes Point to Potential Systemic Risk from New Rules
• March 17, 2015 – How New Rules Redefine U.S. Insurance
• March 11, 2015 – Petrou Argues that Asset Management Poses Systemic Risk, Ready Resolution Best Response
• March 2, 2015 – Petrou Lays Out Next-Gen Strategy for Foreign Banks in U.S.
• January 6, 2015 – Updated 2015 Policy Roadmap: FedFin Forecast of Key U.S. and Global Strategic Drivers
  

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• November 19, 2014 – FedFin Advisory: Next Steps on the NSFR
• October 23, 2014 – Petrou Points to Boom-Bust Risk in Corporate Finance
• September 22, 2014 – Petrou Predicts Next Systemic Risk
  
• September 4, 2014 – New Report Lays Out U.S. Systemic Standards for Big Asset Managers
• September 2, 2014 – Petrou Comment on Impact of Wednesday’s Liquidity, Leverage Rules
• July 30, 2014 – New Study Finds Big-Bank Post-Crisis Bill Rises 102%
• May 6, 2014 –Financial Framework at Risk Due to Regulatory Arbitrage, Petrou Concludes
• March 31, 2014 – Petrou Speech at OCC Conference: U.S. Regulators Behind Curve When It Comes to “Shadow” Banks, Must Act Fast
• March 12, 2014 –Financial System, Regulations Ill-Prepared for Geopolitical Risk Sparked by Ukraine Crisis
• February 18, 2014 – Petrou Comment on FBO Rule
• February 18, 2014 – Independent Expert Presses FDIC: Act Fast or the Next Crisis Will Be Even Worse
• February 14, 2014 – Petrou on Upsie Mae: Is it our Newest GSE?

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• October 22, 2013 – Petrou FDIC Keynote Address: Key Supervisory Issues
  
• October 11, 2013 – Petrou Basel Comment: Effort to Improve Simplicity, Comparability Will Backfire
  
• September 18, 2013 – Consumers Still at Risk, FedFin Finds
• August 6, 2013 – Petrou Comment on Administration GSE Reform Proposals
  
• July 9, 2013 – Petrou on New US Surcharge; More to Come and Cost Big Banks Dearly
  
• May 3, 2013 – Petrou Parses Practical Problems In TBTF Reform
• March 4, 2013 – Petrou Parses Strategic Challenges for Foreign Banks
• February 20, 2013 – Petrou on Global Financial Rules
• February 6, 2013 – Petrou Calls for Reduced FHA Guarantee, Other Reforms to Save Program
• February 6, 2013 – Petrou Calls for Banking-Industry Unity

• November 7, 2012 – Election Impact on Big Bank Break-Up Agenda
• October 23, 2012  – Taking on the Sum-Total Impact of Financial Regulation
  
• September 10, 2012 – Getting Basel Out of the Break-Down Lane
  

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• October 2, 2008 – Post-Rescue Regulatory Rewrite Reviewed
• May 20, 2008 – Petrou Tells Bank Supervisors, “Keep it Simple, Smarty”
• May 8, 2008 – Foreign-Takeover Rules Hit U.S. Bank Loans, Report Finds
• February 6, 2008 – Testimony Details SWF Impact on U.S. Financial Industry