Betsey Stevenson, ABC Australia: "We had [Dodd Frank] regulations put in certain stress tests that banks needed to meet certain liquidity requirements, certain capitalization requirements, and those were for anybody with anything that's over $US50...
Ford School dean Michael Barr is President Joe Biden’s intended nominee for vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve, the White House announced Friday.
Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Ford School, the Frank Murphy...
The Center on Finance, Law and Policy co-hosted a day-long conference with the Brookings Institution on June 30 to mark the Dodd-Frank Act 10th Anniversary. Former Senator Chris Dodd and former Representative Barney Frank participated, as did...
The Federal Reserve undertook its annual stress tests for the 34 largest US banks on Thursday, June 25, and determined to require big banks to suspend share repurchases during the third quarter and limit dividend distributions to the levels banks...
Political and policy leaders will examine the impact one decade later of the Dodd-Frank Act, the legislation that aimed to reform Wall Street and protect consumers in the wake of the Great Recession. The Federal Reserve’s latest stress tests, one of...
Dean Michael Barr is featured on a recent episode of The Indicator, a podcast from NPR's Planet Money. The episode, titled "Dungeons & Dragons & Balance Sheets," explored the origins, results, and future of annual "stress tests" for mid-sized to...
This summer, Ford School Dean Michael Barr served as co-counsel on an amicus brief by leading financial regulation scholars in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The suit, brought by a NJ-based mortgage lender that had been fined...
Service History
Assistant secretary for financial institutions, U.S. Treasury Department (2009-10)
Special advisor, President of the United States (1999-01)
Deputy assistant secretary for community development, U.S. Treasury Department...
University of Michigan law professor and incoming Ford School dean Michael Barr has served as co-counsel on a recent amicus brief submitted by leading financial regulation and consumer finance scholars in support of the Consumer Financial Protection...
Michael S. Barr, a key architect of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, isn't mincing words when it comes to outlining the stakes of dismantling the historic Wall Street reform and consumer protection legislation. Last month, he testified before Congress on...
President Donald Trump is moving ahead with efforts to overhaul or replace the historic 2010 Dodd-Frank Act—a signature promise of his 2016 campaign. Meanwhile, a case is making its way through the federal courts in which plaintiffs challenge the...
On Friday, February 3, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders rolling back provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a signature achievement of the Obama administration that was passed in response to the financial crisis that began in 2008....
President-elect Donald Trump and treasury secretary nominee Steven Munchin have both threatened to “dismantle” or “kill” aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. In a December 8 op-ed for Fortune, Michael...
As the Republican Party announces regulatory alternatives to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which was devised to reform Wall Street, protect consumers, and prevent financial collapse, Marketplace interviews some of the key architects of Dodd-Frank for...
Michael Barr suspects Republicans will continue to target aspects of Dodd-Frank writes Eric Garcia of MarketWatch in the January 7 story, “House rejects bill granting banks more time to comply with Volker.”
This Wednesday, the House voted on a...
Professor Michael S. Barr makes an appearance in "Financial Crisis, Over and Already Forgotten," a May 22 New York Times article by Floyd Norris. Norris writes that Barr is "working on a book titled, "Five Ways the Financial System Will Fail Next...
This event will be virtual.
Ten years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, and in the midst of an even more devastating economic and public health crisis, what are the risks to the financial system and the U.S. economy? This conference will explore whether the Act created an enduring structure to make the financial system fairer, safer, and better harnessed to the needs of the real economy. Panels will explore the policy choices made in the Dodd-Frank Act, DFA’s implementation over the decade, changes during the Trump Administration, current and potential risks to the financial system, debates over consumer protection, and the future of reform.
On June 30, the Center on Regulations and Markets at the Brookings Institution and the Center on Finance, Law & Policy at the University of Michigan hosted an event to examine the difficult choices made in drafting Dodd-Frank, its impact on sy
Michael Barr, University of Michigan Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy and one of the architects of Dodd-Frank, says there are more risks to come in the financial system and that the Federal Reserve’s recent stress tests of U.S.
U-M law professor Michael Barr says President Trump's executive order to reconsider Wall Street regulations "makes no sense" and will weaken safeguards put in place after the 2008 financial crisis
