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Shaping Global Financial Reform: A Symposium for Private and Public Sector Leaders

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On April 23, 2009, in Washington, D.C., the Bretton Woods Committee, Deloitte, and the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University hosted a symposium, “Shaping Global Financial Reform.” The symposium provided a forum for leading officials and senior practitioners to discuss issues surrounding reforms in regulation of financial services globally and in the United States.

Through interactive dialogue, central bankers, regulatory agency heads and senior executives from leading banking institutions discussed the issues and challenges surrounding domestic and international regulatory reform.

Paul A. Volcker, Chairman of the White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and Sheila C. Bair, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, were the keynotes at the Symposium.

A Compendium

View the compendium of the day’s session, written by Mariya Deryugina of the Boston University School of Law.

Program Speakers and Panelists

Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board; Former Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, Governor, Banco de Mexico; Chairman, Bank for International Settlements Board of Directors
Andrew Crockett, President, JP Morgan Chase International; Former Head of Bank of International Settlements
Charles H. Dallara, Managing Director, The Institute of International Finance, Inc.
John Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman and CEO the Group of Thirty; Former Governor of the Bank of Israel
Jerry Hawke, Partner, Arnold & Porter; Former Comptroller of the Currency
Robert Kelly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of New York Mellon
Jim Leach, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Former Chairman, House Financial Services and International Affairs Committees
Carolyn B. Maloney, Chair, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
Richard H. Neiman, Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York
Gary H. Stern, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Richard Whiting, Executive Director and Chief Counsel, Financial Services Roundtable

Graphic Recordings

A graphic artist participated in the program throughout the day, recording the interactive session through visual representation. The visual representation diagrams from each discussion topic are available to download below.

	System Stability and Confidence Sheila Bair shares her views on restoring system stability and confidence.
	Reforming International Financial Architecture Renowned experts discuss reforming the international financial architecture.
	Restructuring and Reforming U.S. Regulatory Agencies and Responsibilities Regulatory and industry experts perspectives on restructuring and reforming U.S. regulatory agencies and responsibilities.
	New Policies and/or Policy Enhancements for Assuring Financial Stability Regulatory and industry perspectives on new policies and policy enhancements for assuring financial stability.
	International Financial Architecture: Where Have We Been, and Where Do We Need to Go? Paul Volcker provides his views on where we have been and where we need to go.