White Papers
Ethical Corporate Governance Drives Sustainability, Fights Fraud and Reduces Systemic Risk, dated June 2011
This white paper analyzes how ethical corporate governance drives sustainability, fights fraud and reduces systemic risk in the U.S. financial sector. The metrics in this paper are based on undisclosed governance risks that mask the true financial condition of leading financial holding companies (“FHCs”) and their $3 trillion of public debt and equity which is held in part by over 220 registered investment advisers, who manage $10 trillion of assets under management.
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“Ten Questions About Corporate Governance That Fiduciaries of Financial Companies Should Be Asking”, Article Published by Bloomberg Law, June 6, 2011
“The financial crisis of September 2008, and the economic recession that it created, are reminders of the importance of the largest U.S. financial holding companies (FHCs): the too‐big‐to‐fail FHCs. Confidence in the financial system was lost as the failures, near‐failures, and restructurings of just 10 firms created a global financial panic. The condition of all FHCs was questioned. And, despite the economic importance of healthy FHCs to U.S. and world markets, very little public information has been available since to assess their condition.”
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Comments by Ethics Metrics on “Principles for enhancing corporate governance” by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, dated June 15, 2010
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Comments by Ethics Metrics on “Principles for enhancing corporate governance” by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, dated June 15, 2010
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Ethics Metrics’ Regulatory Alert: Systemic Risk – Disclosure and Reporting Issues, dated June 14, 2010.
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Preventing Future Financial Crises: Ensuring Transparency and Ethical Corporate Governance
November 12, 2009, The Ten-Year Anniversary of The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
This white paper defines ten interconnected risks that caused the financial crisis along with matching breaches of interconnected federal regulations that must be corrected in order to prevent the delisting of securities by the exchanges and to solve the underlying causes of systemic risk or federal bailouts and moral hazard. The primary cause of the financial crisis is ineffective corporate governance on compliance by Boards of Directors of financial holding companies. Failure of Boards to effectively oversee compliance, as required by the Code of Ethics and the corporate governance listing standards of the exchanges, with the well-managed and well-capitalized standards is the central cause of the financial crisis.
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