The University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosts large-scale conferences each year to bring together experts from academia, government, and private industries to address a wide number of issues.
Annual Conferences
Financial Stability Conferences
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Global Systemic Risk Keynote speaker: Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times |
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Functions and Firms: Using Activity and Entity-based Regulation to Strengthen the Financial System Conference In light of U.S. Treasury Department reports released over the last year on core principles in financial regulation, how should regulators pursue an activities-based approach to promoting financial stability? How can our regulatory structure adapt to this approach, particularly given the rise of fintech and emerging financial products? |
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FinTech Risks and Opportunities: An Interdisciplinary Approach FinTech continues to disrupt and evolve, not only in how financial products and services are delivered, but who delivers them. Innovation can help to catalyze growth, to create new opportunities, to promote transparency, and to manage risk. However, it can also create new risks, including from operations and cyber incidents. How can regulators balance innovation and risk? |
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As new data sets are created, opportunities emerge. Vast quantities of financial data may help identify emerging risks, enable market participants and regulators to see and better understand financial networks and interconnections, enhance financial stability, bolster consumer protection, and increase access to the underserved. Financial data can also increase transparency in the financial system for market participants, regulators and the public. How can big data be used to enhance financial stability and address other challenges in financial markets? |
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability How can methods from diverse fields, such as system analysis, agent-based modeling, and data visualization and security, be used to better identify, measure, monitor, and mitigate risks in the financial system? |
Other conferences
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Central Bank of the Future Central Banks are increasingly playing an important role in financial inclusion. As technology continues to change the financial sector, there may be new ways these institutions can undertake this work. What regulations, technologies, nudges, and policies can best support emerging economies? |
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Consumer Protection in an Age of Uncertainty The conference explored the status of consumer financial protection as it affects American borrowers, investors, small business owners and those planning for retirement. At the micro-level, speakers discussed student loans and fintech apps; at the macro level, policymakers examined the relationship between the Department of Education, the CFPB, the FTC, and state agencies. |
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September 14-15, 2017 Economics meets law, finance, public policy, and psychology in this two-day symposium, co-hosted with ideas42. Through keynotes, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and interactive audience experiments, participants learned how government units and the private sector are designing new financial products, re-writing investment rules, and using technology to better protect consumers and spur innovation — and what those changes mean for small businesses and our overall economy. |