The Paradigm of Good Financial Regulation & Money Market Funds

The Masters LLM Corporate Finance Law Programme

& The International Law and Theory Centre

Cordially invites you to an evening seminar on

The Paradigm of

Good Financial Regulation

& Money Market Funds

New Themes of Advanced Research

Thursday, 19th May 2011

Portland Hall, School of Law

University of Westminster

4 Little Titchfield Street, London

Do bad regulations cause financial crises? Conversely, are there examples of good regulation that protect investors. For example, money market funds are a significant part of the global financial landscape where regulations have demonstrably improved investor protection during the credit crisis. Discover new areas of research with our panel of experts representing the legal practice in the U.S. and European investment management industry and structured finance.

Registration 5:45 – 6:15pm

Welcome 

6:15 - 6:30 pm

 by Joseph Tanega

 Course Director LLM Corporate Finance Law

A Case of Successful Regulation: U.S. Mutual Funds 

6:30 – 7:00pm

by Matthew Fink

President of the Investment Company Institute (U.S.) from 1991 to 2004

Author of a history of mutual funds, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider’s

View, published by Oxford University Press (2008, 2011)

Many Faces of European Money Market Funds 

7:00 – 7:15pm

by Viktoria Baklanova, CFA

PhD Candidate, University of Westminster, School of Law

Senior Director, Fitch Ratings, New York

Europe: Regulation, a Salutation; Investment, a Valediction 

7:15 – 7:45pm

by Edmond Curtin

Special Counsel in the Capital Markets Department of the London office of

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP and Visiting Fellow in Securities and

Structured Finance Law at University of Westminster

Questions & Answers 7:45 – 8:00pm

Reception 8:00 – 9:00pm

Attendance is free, but places are limited.

RSVP & further Information: Ms. Samantha King

S.King5@westminster.ac.uk

0207 911 5000 ext. 2525

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The Paradigm of Good Financial Regulation & Money Market Funds

Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance--42nd Meeting

Dear all,

For the 42nd gathering of the Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance, on Friday 19 February 2010, from 6.00 to 8.00pm, in room 5.16, 309 Regent Street (University of Westminster), I pass on you a firsthand note by Joe…

1. For the Second Series of Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance (Sessions 41 to 80), we began on February 12th, 2010, with session 41 with a lecture, presentation and short article by Viktoria Baklanova, PhD candidate and senior director of Fitch, New York, who uncovered some deep secrets about the most ordinary legal and financial certainty in the global financial system, i.e. the innocuous and ordinary money market fund. MMFs are paradoxical for their certainty of payment and their concentration of power. For those who
paid attention, the gift came from an understanding of phusis (the Greek) of that which grows and makes grow--from an initial fund of $300,000 in 1972 to the monster $5.8 trillion of 2008. Without an understanding of MMFs, we understand nothing of the credit crisis of 2006-08, nor do we understand how should financial regulations be formed so that you and I can enjoy the immediacy of absolute cash from our ATMs.

2. In many ways, what we experience in finance is what Heiddegger may have called the Dasein (being) of our lives. Finance, money and how the burden of their meanings threaten and compel us in our extraordinary meditations of the extraordinary events is philosophy in its intimate essence.

3. Therefore, to kick off the fireworks and the long-song of the second series of the Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance, we will read Heiddegger's Introduction to Metaphysics translated by G Fried and Polt.

4. I will bring a few copies to the Friday session as gifts to those who promise to read it.

Let us be, then, at Vapiano (19-21 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QB) at 8.00pm for meal and drinks.

See you on Friday!

Laura

Philosophical Foundations of Law and Finance--42nd Meeting