For decades, William Isaac’s insights on the U.S. financial system have been featured in leading news publications. Now, you can browse them all in one location.
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By Mark Williams for The Columbus Dispatch
The $700 billion financial bail-out: Unnecessary.
Political leadership: Lacking.
Financial regulatory reform: Worthless.
Two years after the collapse of investment banking firm Lehman Brothers nearly brought down the U.S. financial system
By Alexander Coolidge for Cincinnati.Com
Former bank regulator and current Fifth Third chairman William Isaac predicted on Thursday that the nation will face another financial crisis in 10 to 15 years.
By Nathan Stovall for SNL Financial
William Isaac served as the chairman of the FDIC from 1978 to 1985, overseeing the resolution of numerous failed banks, including the winding down of large institutions such as Continental Illinois, the nation’s seventh-largest bank prior to its failure in 1984. Isaac is now the chairman of LECG Global Financial Services and Fifth Third Bancorp.
Fifth Third Bancorp Chairman William Isaac sees some welcome news in the wake of the financial panic that saw venerable Wall Street titans collapse and credit freeze: It’s not as bad as the 1980s crisis he witnessed while chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
By Nathan Stovall for SNL Financial
William Isaac served as the chairman of the FDIC from 1978 to 1985, overseeing the resolution of numerous failed banks, including the winding down of large institutions such as Continental Illinois, the nation’s seventh-largest bank prior to its failure in 1984. Isaac is now the chairman of LECG Global Financial Services and Fifth Third Bancorp.
By Molly Gray for The Lantern
William Isaac has one entity to blame for the devastating impact of the 2008 financial panic: Washington.
Isaac, who served as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the 1980s, a decade that saw America’s last sweeping bank crisis, will be on campus at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow in Saxbe Auditorium in Drinko Hall to discuss his book, “Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America.”
Former FDIC chairman and author William Isaac explains why he thinks banks are not more profitable and tells what factors will determine which banks will ultimately be successful.
Click here to view the interview on MoneyShow.com
By: Mark Gordon, Managing Editor for the Gulf Coast Business Review
Bill Isaac, onetime chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., recently wrote a book about the mistakes he says political leaders made that led to many of the county’s current financial problems. Isaac lives in Sarasota.
By Heather Landy, Paul Davis and Jeff Horwitz for the American Banker
Unplugged … Again
“Poppycock.” That was former bank regulator Bill Isaac’s one-word assessment of former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s claim that he had no authority to rescue Lehman Brothers Inc., and it cut through the cocktail-hour din to garner laughter and applause from Isaac’s audience.