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Dan Carol
Dan Carol is a senior director in the Milken Institute’s Center for Financial Markets and leads I
nstitute programming on climate-resilient infrastructure and public finance.
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Rethinking Appraisals in a Modernized Housing Finance System
Ed DeMarco considers the recent evolution of the home appraisal industry and its role in a future h
ousing finance system that relies on private capital. He explores the issues facing the industry, including content, standards, and regulation.
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Designing an Israeli Development Financing Platform
On January 8, 2019, in a joint venture with the Prime Minister’s Office, the Milken Innovation Cent
er/Blum Lab for Developing Economies hosted a Financial Innovations Lab to explore the creation of an Israeli development finance institution (DFI).
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Models for Biomedical Innovation and Commercialization
This report relates to a Financial Innovations Lab held in Jerusalem in 2015 that led to new work a
nd major collaborative projects between the Milken Innovation Center and universities in the U.S..
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Financing the Control of Tuberculosis
As of 2015, roughly one third of the world’s population, mostly in poorer countries, carried tuberc
ulosis bacteria in their system. Given the characteristics of airborne diseases like tuberculosis, coordination among national and international age
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Capital Access in Israel's Underserved Markets
In 2014, Israel’s climbing poverty rates threatened national stability.
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Currency Manipulation Provisions Do Not Belong in Trade Agreements
Demands for provisions to stop currency manipulation by foreign governments have become central to
the congressional debate over proposed trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, under
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Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation
Proxy advisory firms have arisen due to market failures underlying voting and the broader system of
corporate governance. However, proxy advisory firms, which are not subject to mandatory regulation, reflect market failures of their own.
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Payday Lending: Does Regulation Depend on Which Party Holds Power?
When a borrower receives a so-called “payday loan,” he or she writes a check that is postdated to t
he next payday or signs over permission for the lender to make an electronic withdrawal of the amount borrowed, plus fees, on that day.
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Comments_on_the_Department_of_the_Treasury_TREAS_Notice.pdf
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Department
of the Treasury regarding expanding access to credit through online marketplace lending.
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FinTech in Focus - June 19, 2019
In this issue:
Industry Headlines »
Global Developments »
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Milken Institute report calls for oversight of proxy advisory firms
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2019 – Reforms are needed to bring transparency and accountability to proxy adv
isory firms, whose advice to institutional investors influence the outcome of shareholder votes on matters like executive pay, acquisitions, and board ap
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