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Financial Regulation: Evolution and Current State
Ken Abbott, Morgan Stanley
Baruch MFE Master Class
Saturday, May 12, 2012
The Baruch MFE Program will offer a one-day Master Class on Financial Regulation: Evolution and Current State taught by Ken Abbott, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Firm Risk Management, Morgan Stanley Bank, on Saturday, May 12, 2012.
This Master Class will provide attendees with an overview of financial markets regulation, with an emphasis on sales and trading. There will be a particular focus on the impact of recent legislation on banks.
Seating is limited to 75 participants.
Program:
Overview and Framework for Financial Regulation
- Key Players
- Types of Regulation
- The Microeconomics of Regulation
- Market Failure and Externalities
- Government Intervention Defined
- US Regulatory History
- EU Regulatory History
- Basel I
- Basel II
- Basel 2.5
- Basel III
- Dodd-Frank
- Volcker Rule
- Enhanced Prudential Standards Rulemaking
- US
- Europe
- Asia
- Latin America
Ken Abbott is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in New York, where he is the Chief Operating Officer for Firm Risk Management. In addition, he also supervises legal entity risk management for Morgan Stanley and is the senior risk officer covering the buy side. Previously, he ran market risk management for Bank of America’s Investment Bank. He has over 25 years banking experience, including 14 years at Bankers Trust as an analyst, trader, and risk manager. Ken has a BA from Harvard in Economics, an MA from NYU in Economics and an MS from NYU/Stern in Statistics and Operations Research. He sits on the GARP Board of Directors.
Ken is very generously volunteering his time and will not charge any fees for teaching the Master Class. Instead, one half of all tuition proceeds will be donated to the New Jersey Scholars Program on behalf of Ken Abbott.
Audience
Finance professionals, academics, and students interested in gaining a high level introduction to financial regulatory institutions and how they affect financial markets as well as those employed in that arena.
Attendees will deepen their knowledge of the regulatory machinery surrounding financial markets, how it has evolved over time, and how recent changes may affect the industry going forward.
Schedule
Saturday, May 12
9:00-9:30am Registration and light breakfast; coffee and tea available throughout the day
9:30am-12:30pm Morning Session
12:30-2:00pm Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
2:00-5:00pm Afternoon Session
Location: 55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street), Room 5-150, Newman Vertical Campus, Baruch College
Registration
Seating is limited to 75 participants.
Practitioner: $550 (includes a $275 tax-deductible donation to the New Jersey Scholars Program)
Student/Academic: $250 (includes a $125 tax-deductible donation to the New Jersey Scholars Program)
Pre-register at http://tinyurl.com/7g6m5ku
Within two business days of pre-registering, an email with information on how to complete the registration, including information about processing the tax-deductible donation, will be sent from baruch.mfe@baruch.cuny.edu
Contact and further information: baruch.mfe@baruch.cuny.edu
I very much enjoyed it, as did the participants.
