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GCFP Names Former Head of Federal Housing Administration Edward Golding as Executive Director

Rethinking financial risk in the era of climate change

Catastrophic weather threatens not just lives and livelihoods, but capital markets, too. Financial managers ignore the warning signs at their peril. Floods. Fire. Extreme heat. Drought. Those are just some […]

Americans have $1 trillion problem

By Doug Criscitello, featured in The Hill. While large numbers defy comprehension, Americans should try to wrap their minds around the huge sums of money owed on the fastest growing […]

5th Annual Conference (stream link available)

“2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review” was a major event marking the anniversary of the 2008 global financial crisis. In conjunction with Annual Review of Financial Economics and New York […]

GCFP launches contest to develop new type of retirement plan for the public sector

The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy will distribute a prize pool of $20,000 to the winners. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 24, 2018 – The Golub Center for Finance and […]

Introducing a new educational tool on housing finance reform

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s educational tool on housing finance reform. Proposals for reform have come from both within and […]

Gary Gensler’s active first year at MIT

In early 2018, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab announced the joint appointment of Gary Gensler as Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of […]

Paving a path to better reverse mortgages

The MIT GCFP and Columbia University convened a group of leading researchers, policymakers, industry participants and consumer advocates to discuss the U.S. reverse mortgage market. The meeting took place on […]

Banking Reform Clearinghouse

Get up to speed on the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Rollback and other regulatory developments.

Compressing OTC Markets

In the years following the financial crisis of 2007-2008, several initiatives were launched targeting the size and opacity of over-the-counter (OTC) markets. The new regulatory environment resulted in additional costs […]