Viola Llewellyn is the President and co-founder of award winning "TradeTech" company, Ovamba Solutions, where she oversees innovation, strategy, and business development. Ms. Llewellyn is globally recognized as an expert on African entrepreneurship,…
On June 30, the Center on Regulations and Markets at the Brookings Institution and the Center on Finance, Law & Policy at the University of Michigan hosted an event to examine the difficult choices made in drafting Dodd-Frank, its impact on systemic...
On October 22-23, 2015, the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law & Policy hosted its first annual financial stability conference with the U.S. Office of Financial Research. Regulators, policymakers, financial market participants, and...
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis is pleased to announce that two vacant seats on the Board of Directors (the “Board”) were filled during the Board’s recent 2023 special election.
Kathryn M. Dominguez, professor of public policy and...
Pictured from left to right: Professor JJ Prescott (Law), Professor Emmanuel Yimfor (Ross), and Toni Meyers-Douglas (CCRC)
Over the summer, the Center on Finance, Law & Policy partnered with the U-M Center of Racial Justice and Michigan Law to...
A new cohort of businesses, mostly from Detroit’s east side, began work with U-M Ross students in Prof. Amy Angell’s marketing class, Consumer Behavior, this month. Businesses include restaurants, a mobile grocery store, retailers, a local...
NEI granted the Center on Finance Law & Policy $55k to support DNEP's ongoing operations. The Inclusive Small Business Support Network Fund is designed to provide reliable operating support to small business support organizations (BSOs) to...
On February 15, the Center on Finance, Law & Policy hosted “Fintech in the African Context” as
part of the University of Michigan’s Africa Week. Panelists discussed regulatory frameworks, barriers
to scale, and business models that respond to the...
Note: As part of the Central Bank of the Future research project, we asked a few people to help us think big in reimagining the Central Bank of 2070. What underlying assumptions would have to change to foster economic inclusion? This post is the...
On March 17, 2018, the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy's summary paper describing the proceedings of the 2016 Big Data in Finance Conference hit SSRN's Top 10 download list for Emerging Legal Issues! Congratulations to...
On October 22-23, 2015, more than 250 regulators, policymakers, financial market participants, and academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines gathered in Ann Arbor to explore how methods from diverse fields can be used to better...
The University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law & Policy and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco are co-hosting the second “Central Bank of the Future” Conference on Monday-Wednesday November 16 – 18, 2020, and we hope that you can join us from 12-4 EST.
Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty alleviation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools. Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu.
U. S. Department of the Treasury, Cash Room
Washington, DC
The U.S. Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law, and Policy will bring together regulators, policymakers, lawyers, economists, financial institutions, investors, financial technology companies, and experts on data science, cybersecurity, and finance.
Submitted to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) March 2019. For the fourth consecutive year, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy co-hosted a conference addressing...
On September 14-15, 2017, the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law, and Policy and behavioral science research and design lab ideas42 brought together influential leaders from academia, government, nonprofits, and the financial sector for...
The Financial Crisis and ensuing Great Recession caused enormous hardship for households. Using original datasets, we examine the effects of the recession on a population many might think had nothing left to lose: low- and moderate-income households...
How can financial data be made more accessible and more secure, as well as more useful to regulators, market participants, and the public? As new data sets are created, opportunities emerge. Vast quantities of financial data may help identify...
Barclays has been fined, the British have issued their report, and now the market is anxious for everything to go on as usual with the London Interbank Offer Rate (“LIBOR”). I think that would be a serious mistake. The U.S. and British...
In partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this project explores the mandate and design of central banks to consider whether they might play an even stronger role in promoting financial inclusion, financial health, and a more inclusive...
Since 2015, we have hosted an annual large-scale conference with the U.S. Office of Financial Research to convene regulators, policymakers, journalists, and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to present research on different topics impacting financial...
By combining finance, machine learning, and computational game theory with law and policy, University of Michigan faculty from the College of Engineering, the Ross School of Business, the Law School, and the Ford School of Public Policy are building new models for thinking about and detecting spoofing and other...
To combat the financial impacts of COVID-19, central banks have implemented a variety of emergency response programs. This session reviews how those programs are changing the role of the central bank and how they interact with inclusion.
Mr. Mu Changchun, Director-General of the Digital Currency Institute at the People’s Bank of China, discusses eYuan, ANT financial, and China’s approach to digital currency with Dean Michael Barr of the Ford School of Public Policy.
Chris Brummer of Georgetown Law School takes a deep dive on CBDCs with former CFTC Commissioner Chris Giancarlo, economist Dr. Lisa Cook from Michigan State University, Morgan Ricks of Vanderbilt Law School, and Bejoy Das Gupta of eCurrency.
The 2020 Central Bank of the Future Conference concludes with a discussion between Governor Patrick Njoroge of the Central Bank of Kenya and Christopher Calabia of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The National Bank of Cambodia is innovating fast. In this keynote address, Her Excellency Chea Serey describes the evolving role of the central bank in currency, data, cybersecurity, and supervision.
Kaitlin Asrow of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a panel discussion with former CGAP Senior Financial Sector Consultant David Medine, Sopnendu Mohanty of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and iSPIRT’s Siddharth Shetty.
