External Meetings: Speech to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Financial Institutions and Regulation Colloquium (Princeton, NJ)

When:

11/22/2010 4:30 PM

Rulemaking(s):

IX. Governance & Possible Limits

General

CFTC Staff:

Gary Gensler

Tim Karpoff

Visitor(s):

Approximately 100 people in attendance.

Organization(s):

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Chairman Gensler discussed developments in the banking and shadow banking sectors with an emphasis on the role played by derivatives. During the question-and-answer period, questions largely addressed the role that derivatives may have played in the 2008 financial crisis and what reforms the Dodd-Frank Act puts in place to prevent a recurrence.