{"id":6320,"date":"2010-07-09T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:00:00","slug":"to-bank-regulator-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/09\/to-bank-regulator-stepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"To bank regulator stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6321\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/John-Dugan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Dugan\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>In a surprise announcement, Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan (r.)\u00a0says he will <a title=\"step down\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN0821797820100708\" target=\"_blank\">step down <\/a>next month as the top U.S. bank regulator.\u00a0 Appointed by President George Bush, Dugan was instrumental in shaping the &#8220;stress tests&#8221; for the largest financial institutions, but often sparred with FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair about consumer matters.\u00a0 Former Federal Reserve Bank examiner <a title=\"Mark Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WilliamsMark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Williams<\/a>, who teaches finance at the School of Management, say choosing Dugan&#8217;s successor is an opportunity for the Obama administration to\u00a0send a signal that our banks will be held to a higher accountability and scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is important to not repeat the error of the past and appoint a former lobbyist, as was Dugan, who is banker friendly.\u00a0 As an important industry watchdog, the head of the OCC needs to set the tone that banks will be regulated &#8212; not coddled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Mark Williams, 617-358-2789, <a href=\"mailto:williams@bu.edu\">williams@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement, Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan (r.)\u00a0says he will step down next month as the top U.S. bank regulator.\u00a0 Appointed by President George Bush, Dugan was instrumental in shaping the &#8220;stress tests&#8221; for the largest financial institutions, but often sparred with FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair about consumer matters.\u00a0 Former Federal Reserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1023,980,577,1286,1356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7669,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/7669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}