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Clearing a Path for Global Development Finance: Enabling Basel and Development Guarantees to Deliver on Sustainable Development Goals
On August 2, 2017, the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) convened a roundtable to
discuss how addressing global financial regulatory issues may foster greater G20 bank investments aligned to the U.N.
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Testimony: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee Housing and Insurance: “Sustainable Housing Finance, Part III”
Ted Tozer, Senior Fellow in the Housing Finance Program at the Milken Institute Center for Financia
l Markets, presents in his written testimony before the U.S.
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Comment Letter: Policy on No-Action Letters and the CFPB Product Sandbox
In this letter, we provide initial reactions and thoughts with regards to both the proposed policy
on No-Action Letters (NALs) and the Product Sandbox proposal, and propose several recommendations to further strengthen the proposal.
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Comment Letter to the OCC: Special Purpose National Bank Charters for FinTech Companies
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets provided a response to the Office of th
e Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) upon request for comments regarding
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Empowering Communities and Their Banks: Strategies for Enhancing Minority Depository Institutions
The Milken Institute, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and JP Morgan Chase & Co., i
s excited to release its latest contribution to the national conversation on how to improve underserved communities.
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Priming SDG Markets: Can International Donors and Implementers Create An Impact Investment Pipeline?
Leveraging the power of markets is critical to fulfilling the bold ambitions of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The Role of a Duty to Serve in the Secondary Mortgage Market
A much-debated concept to support affordable housing is that of a duty to serve (DTS) policy, which
would impose an obligation on the secondary mortgage market institutions of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or their successors to ensure that adequate lendin
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A Blueprint for Administrative Reform of the Housing Finance System
This paper sets out proposed administrative actions to reform the housing finance system in the abs
ence of legislation.
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Affordable Rent and Access to Homeownership: Refreshing the Debate in the Context of Housing Finance Reform
The continuing policy debate over restructuring the plumbing of the secondary mortgage market may u
ltimately prove to be the easy part—at least politically—of housing finance reform.
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capit
al among Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs and small-businesses owners.
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RegTech: Opportunities for More Efficient and Effective Regulatory Supervision and Compliance
In response to the financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent wave of regulation, financial institutio
ns and regulators have begun to look for ways to use emerging technologies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of regulatory compliance and super
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Guaranteeing the Goals: Adapting Public Sector Guarantees to Unlock Blended Financing for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
In order for developing countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
the private sector and the countries themselves must be critical providers of funding to achieve the ambitious vision to end poverty, protect the planet,
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