The Role of Bankruptcy Reform in Addressing Too-Big-To Fail
Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
Witnesses:
Mr. Randall D. Guynn
Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Dr. John B. Taylor
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics
Stanford University
Professor Thomas H. Jackson
President Emeritus
University of Rochester
Mr. Simon Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship
MIT Sloan School of Management
Oversight of the Financial Stability Oversight Council Designation Process
Witnesses
Mr. Patrick Pinschmidt
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Oversight Council
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Measuring the Systemic Importance of U.S. Bank Holding Companies
Witnesses
Dr. Robert DeYoung
Capitol Federal Professor in Financial Markets and Institutions
University of Kansas School of Business
Professor Deborah Lucas
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director MIT Center for Finance and Policy
Sloan School of Management
Professor Jonathan R. Macey
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law
Yale Law School
The Honorable Michael S. Barr
Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
The Role of the Financial Stability Board in the U.S. Regulatory Framework
Senate Banking Committee
Witnesses
The Honorable Dirk Kempthorne
President and CEO
American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI)
Mr. Eugene Scalia [view testimony]
Partner
Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher
Mr. Paul Schott Stevens
President and CEO
Investment Company Institute
The Honorable Peter Wallison
Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Dr. Adam S. Posen
President
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Hearing: H.R. 2947, the “Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2015.”
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.
Witnesses
Mr. Donald S. Bernstein Esq.
Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Stephen E. Hessler Esq.
Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Mr. Richard Levin Esq.
Partner
Jenner & Block LLP
H.R. 2947, the "Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2015."
To amend title 11 of the United States Code in order to facilitate the resolution of an insolvent financial institution in bankruptcy.
Evaluating the Security of the U.S. Financial Sector
Witness List:
- The Honorable Cyrus Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York County District Attorney’s Office
- Mr. Chip Poncy, Founding Partner, Financial Integrity Network; Senior Counselor, Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- Mr. John W. Carlson, Chief of Staff, Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center
H.R. 2267, the "PACT (Protecting All College Tuition) Act of 2015."
To amend title 11, United States Code, to provide an exception to the avoidance of transactions by bankruptcy trustee under section 548 where the transaction was a good faith payment by a parent of post secondary education tuition for that parent’s child.