The FinReg Pod

Ben Lawsky, CEO of the Lawsky Group and the former New York State Superintendent of Financial Services, talks about his experience creating the New York BitLicense, a first-of-its-kind state licensing regime for the virtual currency industry with The FinReg Pod host, Lee Reiners. Want to contact the show? Email reiners@law.duke.edu Interested in learning more about issues in financial regulation and policy? Check out the Global Financial Markets Center’s blog: https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/ You can learn more about the Global Financial Markets Center by visiting our website: https://law.duke.edu/globalfinancialmarkets/

Aaron Klein addresses the costs of America’s slow and antiquated payment system and its contribution to economic inequality with The FinReg Pod host Lee Reiners. Klein is a fellow in Economic Studies and policy director of the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution. He focuses on financial regulation and technology, macroeconomics, and infrastructure finance and policy.   For more on this topic, check out these articles written by Aaron Klein:    Real-time payments can help combat inequality: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/real-time-payments-can-help-combat-inequality/   The fastest way to address income inequality? Implement a real-time payment system: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-fastest-way-to-address-income-inequality-implement-a-real-time-payment-system/   Want to contact the show? Reach out to reiners@law.duke.edu   Interested in learning more about issues in financial regulation and policy? Check out the Global Financial Markets Center’s blog: https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/   You can learn more about the Global Financial Markets Center by visiting our website: https://law.duke.edu/globalfinancialmarkets/

Part 2 of Joe Smith talking about his role as court appointed monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement in the wake of the global financial crisis with The FinReg Pod host Reiners. Smith is currently a partner at Poyner Spruill and a fellow at the Global Financial Markets Center. From 2002 to 2012, Joe served as North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, before taking on his role as monitor.   A Review and Assessment of the National Mortgage Settlement by Its Monitor by Joseph A. Smith Jr: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1430&context=ncbi   National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/mortgage-settlements   Want to contact the show? Reach out at reiners@law.duke.edu Interested in learning more about issues in financial regulation and policy? Check out the Global Financial Markets Center’s blog, The FinReg Blog. You can learn more about the Global Financial Markets Center by visiting our website: https://law.duke.edu/globalfinancialmarkets/

Part 1 of Joe Smith talking about his role as court appointed monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement in the wake of the global financial crisis with The FinReg Pod host Lee Reiners. Smith is currently a partner at Poyner Spruill and a fellow at the Global Financial Markets Center. From 2002 to 2012, Joe served as North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, before taking on his role as monitor.   A Review and Assessment of the National Mortgage Settlement by Its Monitor by Joseph A. Smith Jr.:https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1430&context=ncbi   National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/mortgage-settlements   Want to contact the show? Reach out at reiners@law.duke.edu Interested in learning more about issues in financial regulation and policy? Check out the Global Financial Markets Center’s blog, The FinReg Blog. You can learn more about the Global Financial Markets Center by visiting our website: https://law.duke.edu/globalfinancialmarkets/