EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Oct. 23-24, 2014

EVENT: The University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law and Policy will hold a two-day conference focused on taking stock six years after the financial crisis and four years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Speakers will evaluate post-financial crisis domestic and international financial reforms and discuss what still needs to be done to create a financial system that is safer and fairer, and that better serves the real economy.

The conference will begin Thursday, Oct. 23, with a workshop and poster session for graduate and professional students. Friday, Oct. 24, will feature panels on financial stability, financial access, financial markets and global finance, and a keynote address at 12:30 p.m. by Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Cordray previously led the bureau’s Enforcement Division. Prior to joining the bureau, he served as Ohio’s Attorney General, helping to recover more than $2 billion for Ohio’s retirees, investors and business owners, and took major steps to protect its consumers from fraudulent foreclosures and financial predators.

He has served as Ohio treasurer and Franklin County treasurer, two elected positions in which he led state and county banking, investment, debt and financing activities. As Ohio treasurer, he resurrected a defunct economic development program that provides low-interest loan assistance to small businesses to create jobs, relaunched the original concept as GrowNOW, and pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into access for credit to small businesses.

REGISTRATION: To register and view a schedule of events, visit http://bit.ly/1ra9fZs. The conference is free and open to the public for Friday events only.

PLACE: U-M Law School’s South Hall, Room 1225, located at S. State and Monroe streets in Ann Arbor. Central Campus map: http://campusinfo.umich.edu/campusmap

SPONSORS: Russell Sage Foundation and U-M Office of Research