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Financial market signals and banking supervision: are current practices consistent with research findings?
The trend toward incorporating information derived from financial markets into the bank supervision process has gained momentum over the past several years. This in part reflects an evolution in the thinking about how private market information can contribute to the process. In light of the evolving view of the potential contributions of market information, this paper reviews the empirical evidence relevant to the usefulness of financial market information in the bank supervision process. This paper reviews the research on what information can be gleaned from the pricing of equity and debt ...
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Recent activity resulting from the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
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Can Data Sharing Help Financial Institutions Improve the Financial Health of Older Americans?
This paper explores how increased data sharing among financial institutions could improve the financial outcomes of older adults suffering from cognitive impairment. Among the first signs of cognitive impairment in older adults is a decline in financial capacity, which is also a risk factor for abuse or exploitation. Banks and other financial institutions are at the front lines to monitor and detect changes in financial capacity and susceptibility to fraud and abuse. However, industry experts have found that, in many cases, no mechanism exists for financial service providers to communicate ...
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Consumer financial privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
By requiring financial institutions to put adequate controls in place to secure consumers? confidential data and by clearly spelling out what rights consumers and financial institutions have, the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is a positive step toward ensuring consumer financial privacy. If there are no market imperfections, then competition may be relied on to efficiently sort out the competing interests of consumers and financial institutions. Alternatively, if there are market imperfections in the form of externalities, the Coase theorem suggests that the act, by clearly assigning property ...
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The impact of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on banks, community groups and consumers
Last fall Congress passed legislation that will dramatically alter the financial services industry in the United States. Carol Lewis explains how the sweeping reforms in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act impact bank holding companies, banks, community groups, and consumers.
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The economics of financial privacy : to opt out or to opt in?