A discussion among financial industry leaders and academics about the current state of the markets and what we can expect in the coming months and years.

Consortium for Systemic Risk Analytics Joins MIT Research Organizations

Visiting Scholar Xun Wu, a PhD student at Tsinghua University, is in residence at the CFP for the 2014-15 academic year to pursue his dissertation research on “Chinese Local Government Indebtedness: Systemic Risk and Financial Cost.”

The Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) at the MIT Sloan School of Management is pleased to announce the appointment of Chester Spatt as a Distinguished Senior Fellow to lead the Center’s research on regulation of financial markets and institutions. In addition to playing a substantial role i...

Chester Spatt was interviewed by Kenneth Durr of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society last year about his time at the Commission as Chief Economist. A transcript of the interview can be found here; audio of the conversation is below.

The CFP is pleased to announce the addition of two new and distinguished members, Ms. Carla F. Avila and Dr. Sung Hwan Shin, to its Advisory Board. The CFP Advisory Board convenes annually at MIT, and provides essential oversight, guidance and support to the Center and its mission.

Please read the published press release below from PR Newswire: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The MIT Center for Finance and Policy (CFP) and the Harvard Crowd Innovation Laboratory (CIL) are launching a contest to generate new proposals for criteria that regulators sho...

The Center for Finance and Policy (CFP) hosted a conference in Washington DC on October 29, 2015 — along with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the American Society of Public Administration — to bring together lending practitioners within [...]

The Center for Finance and Policy has teamed with The SWIFT Institute to host a conference this fall to explore areas that could result in better interactions between [...]

Held virtually on July 7 – 9, hosted by MIT GCFP. More videos will be made available in the coming weeks. All available videos are linked in the title.