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CFTC Jurisdiction Should Not Extend to Event Contracts

By Ilya Beylin September 23, 2024 by Ilya Beylin

Two weeks ago, there was big news for “event contracts,” which provide for fixed payouts upon the occurrence of specified events and are sometimes referred to as “prediction” products.  Kalshi – an exchange that has popularized event contracts on everything …

A Novel Explanation for Concentration Among Derivatives Intermediaries, and Its Implications

By Ilya Beylin May 17, 2024 by Ilya Beylin

In derivatives markets, as in other financial markets, customers rely on intermediaries for access to products.  When transacting, a customer faces a choice of whether to return to a prior provider or seek a new one.  My post yesterday documented …

Examining High Concentration Among Derivatives Intermediaries

By Ilya Beylin May 16, 2024 by Ilya Beylin

Derivatives are financial instruments used to shift risks, such as fluctuations in interest rates or foreign exchange rates or changes in the value of assets such as stocks, bonds, metals, or agricultural or energy products.  At first glance, entering into …

Ripping the Ripple Opinion

By Ilya Beylin July 18, 2023 by Ilya Beylin

Last Thursday’s split summary-judgment decision in the case that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought against Ripple Labs, Inc. (Ripple) and certain of its senior leaders is bonkers.  In partly holding for the defendants, the opinion ignores well established …

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ESG-Linked Swaps and the New Governance School of Regulatory Scholarship

By Ilya Beylin June 20, 2023 by Ilya Beylin

To some extent, this is another collection of words about an acronym that collects words, in the largely passive and meaningless manner of a lint roller.  Elizabeth Pollman recently developed a deft history of the acronym ESG, which stands for …

The Real but Exaggerated Threat of Financial Institution Mobility to Financial Regulation

By Ilya Beylin October 11, 2018 by Ilya Beylin

Where jurisdictions differ in how they regulate an activity, migration allows private parties to choose between regulatory regimes.  In the context of financial regulation, scholars assert that harmonization of regulation across jurisdictions is necessary to prevent institutions from opting into …

Long Live the Editor

By Ilya Beylin June 8, 2016 by Ilya Beylin

After the July 4th weekend, Reynolds Holding will be taking over as the fourth editor-at-large of the CLS Blue Sky Blog.  It has been a remarkable year and a half, and I am confident our Blog will continue to grow …

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Twenty Most Cited Corporate Law & Securities Regulation Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive)

By Ilya Beylin May 23, 2016 by Ilya Beylin
Rank Name School Citations Age in 2016
1 John Coffee, Jr. Columbia University 1470 72
2 Lucian Bebchuk Harvard University 1130 61
3 Stephen Bainbridge University of California, Los Angeles 1010 58
4 Reinier Kraakman Harvard University   820 67
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Notice of Opportunity: Have You Ever Thought of Entering Academia?

By Ilya Beylin March 27, 2016 by Ilya Beylin

Columbia Law School is looking for an Editor-at-Large to oversee and administer the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog.  The Blog, now completing its third year, has grown rapidly and become one of the most read sources of current information …

Select Columbia Business Law Review Posts

By Ilya Beylin March 18, 2016 by Ilya Beylin

Today, in addition to our usual offering, we present three student posts from the Columbia Business Law Review:

  • David Markewitz on The SEC’s Appointment Problem and Its Likely Solution;
  • Penina Moisa on The Perils, Protections and Proliferation of
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Millstein Governance Forum on December 10, 2015 at CLS

By Ilya Beylin December 1, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

On December 10th, Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center on Global Markets and Corporate Ownership will be hosting its 10th annual Millstein Governance Forum.

For the past decade, the Forum has served as one of the premiere …

A Debate on the Morality of Insider Trading

By Ilya Beylin October 25, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

Today, we host two pieces debating the potential for firm disclosed insider trading to occur without harm to the company, its investors and other market participants.  John P. Anderson, Associate Professor, Mississippi College School of Law, proposes that under some …

Nominate Our Blog for the ABA 100

By Ilya Beylin August 4, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

To the friends of the CLS Blue Sky Blog: The ABA journal is conducting a poll to identify the top 100 legal blogs.  We would be honored by your nomination.  In addition to reprinting commentary from practitioners and regulators on …

More on Navinder Singh Sarao, the Alleged Market Manipulator with Responsibility for the Flash Crash

By Ilya Beylin April 22, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

For those interested in the allegations against Navinder Singh Sarao and Nav Sarao Futures Limited PLC, which implicate them in extensive market manipulation and the “Flash Crash” of 2010, here are the complaints from the DOJ and CFTC as well …

Recap of Lynn Tilton’s Scuffle with the SEC

By Ilya Beylin April 1, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

Earlier this week, the SEC filed an administrative action against Lynn Tilton and her Patriarch Partners funds.  See In re Lynn Tilton et al.  CNBC has reported that the SEC is  “accusing Patriarch of hiding the poor performance of …

A Shift in Proposed Margin Regulation May Unleash Restraints on Banks’ Activities

By Ilya Beylin February 25, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

A nuance in margin rules proposed by the CFTC and other federal financial regulators threatens to undermine a carefully struck balance in Dodd-Frank.  As background, Title VII of Dodd-Frank subjected U.S. derivatives markets to a host of new regulations.   Broadly …

Today we talk about Fannie and Freddie…

By Ilya Beylin February 18, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

Today we feature three posts on the theme of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The first two posts — from David Min and Brad Miller, respectively — question assumptions about the proper role of government and markets in home …

Marketplace of Ideas: United States v. Newman

By Ilya Beylin January 28, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

Yesterday and today, we are running a number of posts related to the recent United States v. Newman decision in which the Second Circuit overturned the convictions for insider trading and conspiracy to commit insider trading of Todd Newman and …

Why Newman Leaves Me With a Queasy Feeling, or Deregulating the Demand for Insider Information

By Ilya Beylin January 28, 2015 by Ilya Beylin

Among several independent holdings stated by the court on its way to reversing the convictions of Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson, the Newman court declared that: “in order to sustain a conviction for insider trading [against a remote tippee], the …

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