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Sheila Bair speaking before the National Press Club in 2011. Highlights of Bair's career 1981-1988: Research director, deputy counsel and counsel for U.S. Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. 1991-1995: Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission 1995-2000: Senior vice president for government relations, New York Stock Exchange 2001-2002: Assistant secretary for financial institutions, U.S. Treasury 2002-2006: Dean's professor of financial regulatory policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management 2006-2011: Chairwoman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 2011: Senior adviser, The Pew Charitable Trusts 2012: Chair, Systemic Risk CouncilShe sounded alarm bells before the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Now she worries that a new crisis might be in the making. Sheila Bair, former chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., tells Bankrate that the Federal Reserve is creating potentially dangerous asset bubbles.After issuing warnings about the risks of Wall Street inves...
Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair on how the financial sector can help resolve the government’s budget crisis.
Former Senator Ted Kaufman on how Obama will deal with the financial crisis.
CCMR president Hal Scott on Obama's relationship with banks.
Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair argues Congress would run better if lawmakers were paid based on performance.
Tangent Capital Partners senior managing director Chris Whalen gives his outlook for the financial sector.
Wall Street firms gambled on Mitt Romney and lost.Now, faced with the prospect of even tougher regulations in President Barack Obama's second term, they have to buil...
Traders and investors were cautiously preparing themselves for a second term for U.S. President Barack Obama, with many hoping his first order of business would be t...
Traders and investors were in agreement on one thing as voters cast their ballots in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election: The markets want a clear winner by Wednesd...
There are rumblings on Wall Street that Citigroup (NYSE:C) may have pushed Vikram Pandit out of its C-Suite last week in part to make room for one of the biggest nam...
A regular Citigroup Inc board meeting to talk about quarterly results took an unexpected turn on Monday night, when simmering tensions between Chairman Michael O'Nei...
Citigroup Inc's Vikram Pandit quit as chief executive on Tuesday after months of simmering tensions with the board - an abrupt change that surprised investors and em...
Former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair on Vikram Pandit’s resignation as CEO of Citigroup and whether the bank should be broken up.
For the past year, a special team of U.S. bank regulators has been on a quiet mission to end the belief on Wall Street that large banks are "too big to fail."The tea...
Former FDIC Head Sheila Bair on the latest controversy surrounding the big bank.
When former Wells Fargo & Co Chief Executive Dick Kovacevich joined Norwest Bank in 1986, he had reservations about its private equity investments as he did not thin...
Even thinking about breaking up is hard to do. Just ask Citigroup Inc.Michael E. O'Neill was among a small group of directors who after the financial crisis urged th...
Former FDIC chairman Sheila Bair on when the government should get involved with company mergers and acquisitions.
Citigroup Inc's Michael Corbat has been meeting with bank regulators in his first months as CEO, as he looks to bolster relationships and finalize the bank's plan to...
Big banks are urging lawmakers not to extend unlimited guarantees for around $1.4 trillion in bank deposits, a move that pits them against smaller banks and the top ...
