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Study Group: Banking, Insurance, and Financial Institution Experts: Lawyers (US)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 185

This study group may include professors, attorneys, former regulatory officers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as law and litigation issues, lobbying, policy and government, elections, antitrust, immigration, intellectual property, and legislation, among others.

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Mark Saunders
FormerSenior Partner
Holland & Knight LLP

Mark Saunders was until recently a Senior Partner at Holland & Knight in New York. Currently, he maintains a practice in the international, securities and corporate finance, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions areas. Mr. Saunders has negotiated transactions in over 20 countries around the world...


Sanford Brown, Managing Partner, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Bracewell & Giuliani LLPSanford Brown
Managing Partner, Dallas/Ft. Worth
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Sanford M. Brown is the Managing Partner of Bracewell & Giuliani’s offices in Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas. He specializes in the representation of financial institutions specialty finance companies in matters involving state and federal laws and regulations. Mr. Brown also provides counsel to financial...


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Will the card industry's survival of tight interchange fee caps in Australia similarly doom the fee in the US and EU? | 06-23-2008
Analysis of: Australia shrugs off RBA intervention |
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The Lafferty study indicates that forced reductions of bankcard interchange fees in Australia have not significantly harmed issuer or network profits.  This is the exact opposite of what industry representatives had predicted.  If Lafferty is on target, interchange pricing...

Prognosis for Visa's coming IPO | 03-11-2008
Analysis of: Rocky Road for Visa's IPO |
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Investors, including bankcard issuers, want the Visa IPO to be at least as successful as MasterCard's in '06. Visa's global legal problems, which are especially acute in the US and EU, could burden Visa far into the future. The US credit crunch could hold surprises for Visa, more so if Democrats...

Benefits of mortgage meltdown to bankcard industry | 11-30-2007
Analysis of: Did Wal-Mart Crics Make Their Case at Hearings? |
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

To prevent the mortgage meltdown from spreading to payment cards, Congress will suspend aggressive reforms against bankcard lenders and other government pressure (from the feds and perhaps the DoJ) will help to minimize their risks in the interchange antitrust lawsuits.  Thus what Paulson...

Europe antitrust threats to MA & Visa interchange | 11-30-2007
Analysis of: US Banks Move into Covered Bonds |
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Efforts by the EC and UK to stop cartel price fixing threaten bankcard interchange The threat will worsen if they allow private class actions to enforce antitrust standards.

Create more use through new technoloy. We really have a shortfall in designed useage. | 10-07-2007
Analysis of: Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The glut should stimulate more usage through more efficient burning technology and export to oil importers at a attractive price driving demand up and supply stabilized.  Competitive export of ethanol would globalize the usage of ethanol from the US producers.  Our bread basket can be rej...

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