Speeches & Testimony

Eye-Bonds: A new Vision for Federal Support of Biomedical Research
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for CanceRX 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 28, 2014
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The Future of Corporate Finance at Commercial Banks and Why It Matters
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the Loan Syndications and Trading Association
19^th Annual Conference
New York, New York
October 23, 2014
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A Unified Field Theory of Banking
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the Conference of Counsel
Washington, D. C.
October 9, 2014
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The Systemic Richter Scale:
What Could Topple the Towers of Global Finance
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the American Banker Regulatory Symposium
Arlington, Virginia
September 22, 2014
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Is U.S. Banking the Next U.S. Steel?
Prospects for National Banks as the Shadows Lengthen
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for Building on 150 Years: The Future of National Banking, Sponsored by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Boston University Center for Finance, Law and Policy
Boston, Massachusetts
March 31, 2014
Watch: http://www.c-span.org/video/?318607-6/future-community-banking
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Banking in the U.S. for Profit Even If It’s Not Fun Anymore:
The New Strategic Landscape for Foreign Banks
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the Institute of International Bankers
Washington, D. C.
March 3, 2014
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Accounting for Change:
Critical Challenges for Effective Regulation
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the Seventh Annual FDIC Accounting and Auditing Conference
Arlington, Virginia
October 22, 2013
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Strategic Planning at the Crossroads:
The Future of Systemic Regulation in the Wake of the Fiscal Crisis,
Yellen Confirmation, Market Fragility
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the Conference of Counsel
Washington, D.C.
October 10, 2013
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The How-To of What-If:
Counting the Capital Cost of the New Regulatory Landscape
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the Regulatory Symposium
American Banker
Crystal City, Virginia
September 24, 2013
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Settling the Systemic Score:
Or, How to Plan for New Rules without Knowing What They Are
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the American Bar Association
San Francisco, California
August 9, 2013
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“A Legislative Proposal to Protect American Taxpayers and Homeowners
by Creating a Sustainable Housing Finance System”
Basil N. Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Committee on Financial Services
United States House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
July 18, 2013
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Strategic Landscape:
Policy Challenges to Bank Capital-market Activities
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Presentation Prepared for the American Bar Association Securities Association
Washington, D.C.
June 19, 2013
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A Critical Missing Reform Criterion:
How Can We Regulate “Systemic” Banks When We Don’t Know Who They …

The Systemic Slim-Down: Easy to Say, Hard to Do
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Remarks Prepared for the Fourth Annual Regulatory Reform Symposium Navigating Dodd – Frank: Are We Avoiding Another Financial Crisis?
George Washington University Law School Center for Law, Economics and Finance
Washington, D. C.
October 26, 2012
Watch: http://www.c-span.org/video/?309084-3/avoiding-future-financial-crises
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Death of the Voracious Vampire Squid:
Why This Solution Doesn’t Solve the Systemic Problem
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Remarks Prepared for
The Buttonwood Gathering 2012
The Economist
New York, New York
October 25, 2012
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Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees:
What the Sum Total Impact of All the New Rules Means
For the Industry and Financial-System Stability
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before SIFMA 2012 Annual Meeting
New York, New York
October 23, 2012
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Dead Ends on the Road to Global Bank Regulation:
What the Barriers to Cross-Border Standards Mean to Global Banks
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Conference of Counsel
Washington, D.C.
October 4, 2012
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Round Peg, Square Hole: Reconciling Regulation and Community-Bank Profitability
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the New Hampshire Bankers Association
Washington, D. C.
October 2, 2012
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A Job That Passeth Understanding: Or, Can Anyone Be a Bank Director Anymore?
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before 21st Annual Corporate Governance Conference, …

Real Reform and Effective Risk Management:
Reconciling Global Requirements with U.S. Need
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics
Before the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association
Arlington, Virginia
November 7, 2011
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Systemic Regulation: You Don’t Love It, But Can You Live with It?
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics
Before the Conference of Counsel
Washington, D.C.
October 6, 2011
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Whoppers and a Side of Fries: Can Regulators Eat All on Their Plate?
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics
Prepared for the American Banker Regulatory Symposium
Washington, D.C.
September 19, 2011
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The U.S. Bet on Basel: A Reconsideration of the Commitment to Global Financial Regulation
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics
Before the U.S. Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee
Washington, D.C.
September 11, 2011
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Future Role of FHA and Ginnie Mae in the Single-Family Mortgage Market
Basil N. Petrou
Manging Partner
Federal Financial Analytics
Before the Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the Committee on Financial Services US House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
May 25, 2011
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Being Basel Ready:
Anticipating the Strategic Impact of the Global Capital and Liquidity Standards
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics
Remarks Prepared for the Institute of International Bankers
Washington, D.C.
March 7, 2011
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WHERE THE DOLLARS FALL AFTER DODD-FRANK:
Corporate Finance in the New Era
Karen Shaw Petrou
Remarks Prepared for World Economic Outlook Conference
National Harbor, Maryland
October 19, 2010
Watch: http://www.c-span.org/video/?296094-1/ihs-global-economic-outlook-conference
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ORIGINATE TO OBLIVION?
The Fate of the U.S. Secondary Market
Karen Shaw Petrou
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Remarks Prepared for Conference of Counsel
Washington, D.C.
September 30, 2010
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The Bulldozer in the Bulrushes:
Sure and Certain Regulations that Redefine Banking Even as Congress Continues to Ponder
Karen Shaw Petrou
Federal Financial Analytics
Keynote Address Before the University of North Carolina Banking Institute
Charlotte, North Carolina
March 25, 2010
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In the Shadow of Too-Big-To-Fail Banks:
Finding Green Shoots for Community Banks
Karen Shaw Petrou
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Washington State Bankers Association
Seattle, Washington
November 20, 2009
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Structuring Distress-Debt Relief with the Federal Government:
Why It’s So Hard and What to Do About It

Karen Shaw Petrou
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Distressed Debt Conference: 2009
Washington, D.C.
November 10, 2009
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Death by a Thousand Cuts:
The Non-Legislative Big-Bank Break-Up
Karen Shaw Petrou
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the George Washington University Law Center
Washington, D.C.
October 23, 2009
Watch: http://www.c-span.org/video/?289613-2/regulating-large-financial-firms
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Saving Private Guarantees:
The Prospects for Insurance Guarantors in the Revised Resolution Regime
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations
Washington, D.C.
October 14, 2009
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The Future of Capital in Capitalism:
Can Banking Withstand new Securitization Rules?
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Conference of Counsel
Washington, D.C.
October 8, 2009
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Capital, Credit Risk, Counterparties, Compliance, Compensation:
The Strategic Framework of Bank Supervision
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Supervisory Update and Emerging Issues Conference
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
Arlington, Virginia
October 5, 2009
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Big Brother Bank & Trust:
How the Stress Tests Will Get Government Out of the Banking Business
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal …

So, What’s New? Initial Answers to Critical Industry Questions
Remarks by Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Conference of Counsel
October 2, 2008
New York, New York
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What’s an Insurer to Do:
Industry and Regulatory Impact of Current Market Developments
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance
Guarantee Associations
Boston, Massachusetts
July 17, 2008
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Keep It Simple, Smarty
Optimal Bank Regulation in a Tumultuous Time
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Annual Accounting and Auditing Conference
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Arlington, Virginia
May 20, 2008
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Sovereign Wealth Funds: Implications For U.S. Financial Institutions
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
February 7, 2008
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Post August 9: The Strategic Impact of the New Regulatory Agenda
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Remarks Prepared for the
Conference of Counsel
New York, New York
October 4, 2007
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Modernization of Federal Housing Administration Programs
Basil N. Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
United States Senate
July 18, 2007
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WHAT DO WE DO NOW, OLLIE?
U.S. Market Developments in the Basel Void
Karen Shaw Petrou, Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Remarks Prepared for the Federalist Society
Washington, D. C.
May 1, 2007
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Petrou Testifies Before Congress on Key Powers For New GSE Regulator
Testiomony of Karen Shaw Petrou, Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises Committee on Financial Services
U.S. House of Representatives
March 12, 2007
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Washington Wakes Up to Nightmare Mortgages
Remarks of Karen Shaw Petrou and Basil N. Petrou
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the 2006 Bank of America Mortgage Finance and Housing Market Conference
Kiawah Island, South Carolina
September 26, 2006
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Petrou Points to Problems in Keeping U.S. Basel Rules Unchanged for Too Long
Testimony Of Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Committee on Financial Services
U.S. House of Representatives
September 14, 2006
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Reform of the FHA Single-Family Insurance Fund
Basil N. Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Housing and Transportation Subcommittee
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
United States Senate
June 20, 2006
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Two Tracks to Basel II: The Fate of the Capital Accord in the U.S.
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the American Bar Association
Tampa, Florida
April 6, 2006
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Next Steps for the Basel II Rules
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee
Committee on Financial Services
U.S. House of Representatives
September 28, 2005
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Basel II Regulation: U.S. Market and Competitiveness Implications
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
And Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy,
Trade and Technology
U.S. House of Representatives
May 11, 2005
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The Transnational Test:
Can Basel II Really Define Uniform Standards Around the World?
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 19, 2005
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More of Their Ilk?
Policy Issues Raised by Industrial Loan Companies
Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner
Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.
Prepared for the General Accountability Office
Washington, D.C.
February 11, 2005
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