Joseph Borg, who recently retired from three decades as director of the Alabama Securities Commission, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his career as a state securities regulator. Topics in this first part of a two-episode interview include agency building and administrative structure, state politics and financial regulation, cooperation between state and federal enforcement agencies, memorable enforcement actions, and insights on crypto enforcement by state securities regulators.

This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law at Emory University, and Benjamin Edwards, associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The episode was edited by Warren Zhang, a rising second-year law student at Emory University.