Former FDIC and Fifth Third Bank Chairman William Isaac and CNBC's Rick Santelli discuss the Federal Reserve's proposal to ease restrictions on bank trading.

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June 2, 2018

Former FDIC and Fifth Third Bank Chairman William Isaac and CNBC’s Rick Santelli discuss the Federal Reserve’s proposal to ease restrictions on bank trading.

Former FDIC and Fifth Third Bank Chairman William Isaac and CNBC’s Rick Santelli discuss the Federal Reserve’s proposal to ease restrictions on bank trading.

June 2, 2018

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Time to get smart about financial technology — and how to regulate the $10T market by Thomas P. Vartanian and William M. Isaac published by Business Observer on June 30, 2022 July 1, 2022 If you truly understand cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, Web3.0, NFTs, blockchain and the metaverse, you are in a select minority. Most of these terms have definitions that change based on who is using them and for what purpose they are being used. As former federal bank regulators who have handled more than a thousand bank failures over the ...
Isaac and Vartanian Author Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal in Response to an Op-Ed piece Suggesting that Crypto Does Not Require Regulation, June 21, 2022 June 21, 2022 In “Sick Stablecoins Can’t Infect Financial Markets” (op-ed, June 13), Niall Ferguson and Manny Rincon-Cruz are narrowly focused on the here and now. Having handled the collapse of more than 1,000 banks and thrifts ourselves at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, we believe that policy makers should be ...
Ten economic warning signs policymakers ignored by Thomas P. Vartanian and William M. Isaac published by The Hill on June 16, 2022 June 16, 2022 Policymakers are running for the exits when it comes to answering for the state of the economy. Excuses range from Russian President Vladimir Putin to COVID-19. Those excuses have some merit. But whatever peripheral justification is pulled out of the hat, the fact remains that economic duress was inevitable given the way politicians on both ...
BankThink The dark side of financial data sharing by Thomas P. Vartanian and William M. Isaac published by American Banker on June 1, 2022 June 1, 2022 Cryptocurrencies are proving that technology makes it difficult for policymakers to find the balance between encouraging valuable financial innovations and regulating dangerous economic hype. Data-sharing applications that facilitate open banking are the latest examples of technological innovations that boast of valuable new competitive opportunities for financial institutions and their customers. But by now, policymakers should ...
Rising interest rates will be tough on small businesses by William C. Dunkelberg and William M. Isaac published by American Banker May 2, 2022 For the past few years, the availability of qualified workers has been the top business problem for small firms, trumping taxes and government regulations, historically popular choices. Today, the No. 1 issue is inflation. The Federal Reserve says it has the tools to bring inflation back down to 2%, which, by the way, is not ...
Are Large Regional Banks Systemically Risky? by William M. Isaac April 19, 2022 Mergers among large regional banks have become a hot button topic of late, resulting in a recent feud among the board members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Michael Hsu, raised the issue again recently at a Wharton Financial Regulation Conference. I applaud the Acting Comptroller for highlighting and pursuing ...

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