Closing the “RegLag” Between Prospective Regulated Activity and Regulation

By John W. Bagby and Nizan G. Packin October 16, 2020 by renholding

There is often a significant delay between the start of an activity that ends up being regulated and the moment a regulatory response is announced or adopted. This regulatory lag (RegLag) enables individuals, firms, and regulators to engage in undesirable …

ResTech: Innovative Technologies for Crisis Resolution

By Giuseppe Loiacono, Alessandro Mazzullo and Edoardo Rulli July 30, 2020 by renholding

The increasing use of financial technologies (FinTech) by market participants has fostered a discussion among public authorities on the use of similar technologies for regulatory (RegTech) and supervisory (SupTech) purposes. Innovative technologies could also be applied to crisis resolution: the …

The Future of Data Driven Finance: Financial Regulation, Data Regulation, and RegTech

By Dirk A. Zetzsche, Douglas W. Arner, Ross P. Buckley and Rolf H. Weber April 15, 2019 by renholding

Fifty years ago, banking was a relationship business. Bank managers collected information about depositors and borrowers from all sorts of sources, formal and informal. In recent decades, credit decisions have become far more data-driven, with companies like Amazon and the …

SEC Commissioner Talks Old Law and New Frontiers at RegTech Summit

By Michael S. Piwowar March 9, 2018 by renholding

Questions of FinTech and RegTech have been paramount in my mind and, I think it is safe to say, the minds of my fellow Commissioners in recent months.[1]

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Financial Supervisors and RegTech: Four Roles and Four Challenges

By Luca Enriques February 12, 2018 by renholding

Financial institutions and their regulators have long been early adopters of new information technologies (IT). In a short essay based on two posts for the Oxford Business Law Blog (available here and here), I first identify four uses of …

Detecting Risk Through Firms’ Emails

By Sanjiv Das, Seoyoung Kim and Bhushan Kothari February 27, 2017 by renholding

Recent advances in financial technology (FinTech) have dramatically transformed the financial landscape with respect to the way we access, invest, and transfer financial capital. In our recent article, we explore a promising avenue for the use of natural-language processing in …

The True Potential of RegTech: Fostering Systemic Financial Stability

By Janos Nathan Barberis and Ross P. Buckley November 1, 2016 by renholding

Two major challenges have arisen for financial services companies since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008. On the expense side, post-crisis fines have exceeded $200 billion, and the ongoing cost of regulation and compliance has become massive. On the …

White & Case Discusses the Rise of Regtech

By Kevin Petrasic, Benjamin Saul and Helen Lee October 5, 2016 by renholding

Regulatory compliance is time consuming and expensive for both financial institutions and regulators—and the complexity and cost is increasing. According to Federal Financial Analytics, a policy analysis firm, the six largest U.S. banks spent $70.2 billion on compliance in 2013, …

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