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

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Duncan MacDonald

Consultant
Duncan McDonald
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Duncan MacDonald is an independent consultant to financial institutions, corporations, and think tanks on payments, privacy and data protection, alternate dispute resolution, bankruptcy, class action reform, antitrust, joint venture, plain language, and constitutional issues. He has worked at Citibank...

Sanford Brown, Managing Partner, Dallas/Ft. Worth, BRACEWELL & GIULIANI LLPSanford Brown

Managing Partner, Dallas/Ft. Worth
BRACEWELL & GIULIANI LLP
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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...

Chester Salomon

Of Counsel
Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffy LLP
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Chester B. Salomon is Of Counsel at Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffy LLP. Prior, he was a Senior Shareholder and Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy/Workout Practice of Stevens & Lee in New York. Mr. Salomon has represented debtors, creditors, lenders, trustees, litigants and asset purchasers in complex Chapter...

Mary Price, Member, MILLER & MARTIN PLLCMary Price

Member
MILLER & MARTIN PLLC
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Mary Neil Price is a Member at Miller & Martin in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a member of their Business and Tax Department. Ms. Price practices business law with special emphasis on financial institutions, securities, mergers and acquisitions and both for profit and tax exempt organizations....

Mark Saunders

FormerGeneral Counsel
WR Capital Management, LP
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Mark Saunders was until April 1, 2009, the General Counsel of WR Capital Management. Previously, Mr. Saunders was a Senior Partner in the New York office of a law firm with over 1,000 lawyers, in which office he practiced for 19 years. He practices in the international, securities and corporate finance,...

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Populist Politics Threaten Card Industry Recovery & Survival

November 19, 2009

Duncan MacDonald, Consultant, Duncan McDonald

US Credit Card Sector Faces Punitive Hostility | www.ft.com

The letter in today's FT (I am one of the authors) questions whether new and proposed legislation by Congress can kill the credit card industry.

Retail discounts won't revive our economy

November 9, 2009

Duncan MacDonald, Consultant, Duncan McDonald

Catering to the Recession Mentality | online.wsj.com

The article is about the struggle of retailers to lure consumers to stop worrying about the economy and start spending again. Their bait is aggressive discounting. The question not only is whether it will work but whether other factors will wipe out the best laid discounts.

Loss of arbitration of cardholder disputes could sink card industry

October 15, 2009

Duncan MacDonald, Consultant, Duncan McDonald

Turmoil in Arbitration Empire Upends Credit-Card Disputes | online.wsj.com

Although the article is about an investor's failed bet on arbitration of card disputes, the bigger fail will belong to the card industry -- the 1 billion bank and private label cards held by 200 million consumers. Issuers of those cards have all but lost the right require arbitration and the enormous...

Threats to make CARD Act worse and to regulate interchange fees

October 6, 2009

Duncan MacDonald, Consultant, Duncan McDonald

Banks Face Pressure to Bend on New Agency - American Banker Article | www.americanbanker.com

The article is about the wrangling in Congress to enact a so-called "Consumer Protection Agency." But it carries a threat to bankers. If they don't stop trying to block a CPA, Congress will enact piecemeal bills that will prevent card issuers from being able to reprice in response to the CARD Act...

Bankcard industry lobbies Congress to leave interchange fees alone

September 22, 2009

Duncan MacDonald, Consultant, Duncan McDonald

Lafferty Group - Interchange battle rages on | www.lafferty.com

The primary story here is not the card industry's standard defense of bankcard interchange fees. It is that Visa and industry trade associations are responding to the clear and present danger that an angry Congress is going to side with merchants by enacting a law to limit interchange fees. Their defense...

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