Regulations,securities Videos

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard University, talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton and Jon Erlichman about his concerns over asset bubbles appearing in the future. Rogoff also discusses Federal Reserve policy, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's confirmation hearing yesterday, and the outlook for the U.S. labor market. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Hal Scott, a Harvard Law School professor and director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's plan to overhaul the financial regulatory system. Geithner was on Capitol Hill today to discuss proposals to revamp the way derivatives are regulated. He said the U.S. should require these markets to be more standardized, more transparent and limited to investors who are sophisticated enough to understand their risks. (Source: Bloomberg)

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about the outlook for the Federal Reserve and the performance of Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Levitt also discusses proposals in the House and Senate that would limit the Fed's powers. Levitt, an adviser to the Carlyle Group and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is a board member of Bloomberg LP, parent company of Bloomberg News. (Source: Bloomberg)

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg columnist Alice Schroeder talks with Betty Liu about reports that senior bankers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are applying for pistol permits. Schroeder also discusses filing a Freedom of Information Act request with New York Police Department to confirm the information, the security fence that Goldman Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein erected at his home and steps the banks could take to quell public anger at Goldman's bonuses. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Nick Salter reports on a government-commissioned study into the links between pay and risk-taking in the banking industry and its recommendations on regulating bonus payments. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman of Boston Properties Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller about the outlook for financial regulation. Zuckerman said U.S. lenders need "systemic regulation" and that the Federal Reserve did "brilliant work" under chairman Ben S. Bernanke. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Jason Tyler, senior vice president of portfolio management at Ariel Investments LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair's remarks on the state of the banking industry and the outlook for more bank failures. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Daniel Clifton, director of policy research at Strategas Research Partners, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about the prospects for a resolution fund for large financial firms as part of an overhaul of U.S. financial regulation. Clifton also discusses the outlook for a consumer financial protection agency and derivatives legislation. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Gary Gorton, Yale University finance professor, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker and Deirdre Bolton about credit default swaps and the collapse of the financial system. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Nick Calamos, chief investment officer of Calamos Asset Management who helps run the Calamos Convertible Fund, and Dan Brady, options trader at Entropy Capital LLC, talk with Bloomberg's Matt Miller about U.S. stock and bond markets and the economy. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The ex-Pequot Capital Management Inc. employee now at the center of a U.S. insider-trading probe told his therapist that the hedge-fund firm fired him in 2001 after he stopped delivering secret information on Microsoft Corp., the psychologist said in a deposition. Bloomberg's Jesse Westbrook reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- William Cohan, author of "House of Cards" and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about the Federal Reserve's scrutiny of the biggest U.S. banks to ensure the lenders can withstand a reversal of soaring global-asset prices. Cohan also discusses the Fed's regulatory authority and bank bonuses. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Douglas Elliott, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former investment banker, talks with Bloomberg Television about the proposed overhaul of U.S. financial regulation. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Paul Kanjorski, a Pennsylvania Democrat, talks with Bloomberg's Julie Hyman about legislation he proposed that would allow regulators to break up financial firms whose size threatens the economy. The amendment to regulatory overhaul legislation would let the government break up a firm, limit its mergers and acquisitions and force a company to stop activities deemed systemically risky, according to a summary from Kanjorski’s office. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Hendrix, chief executive officer of FBR Capital Markets Corp., talks with Bloomberg's Julie Hyman about the use of so-called blind pools to invest in failed U.S. banks. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Timothy Mayopoulos, who was fired as general counsel at Bank of America Corp. in 2008, will testify today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee is investigating how the lender’s rescue of Merrill Lynch & Co. led to a second government bailout for Bank of America, the biggest U.S. lender. Bloomberg's Lizzie O'Leary reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities International Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's speech today and the outlook for the U.S. economy. Bernanke said economic “headwinds” of reduced bank lending and a weak labor market will probably restrain the pace of the country's economic recovery, warranting continued low borrowing costs. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Jeff Morris, senior vice president at Standard Life Investments, talks with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu and Erik Schatzker about reasons for banks' capital position.¶ Morris also discusses the uncertainty over efforts to overhaul financial regulation and his reasons for favoring CME Group Inc. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton about Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to merge functions of four U.S. bank regulators into a single agency. The legislation creates a Financial Institutions Regulatory Administration that would strip bank supervision powers from the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and eliminate the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Gary Townsend, president and chief executive officer of Hill-Townsend Capital LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton about regulation of the banking system. Townsend also discusses the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and its impact on the financial industry, the outlook for replacing Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's regulatory overhaul proposal. (Source: Bloomberg)