BWC member Afsaneh Beschloss, founder and CEO of RockCreek was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance list for the second year in a row. The list honors leaders in the financial services industry who have made outsized contributions to strengthening the US financial system.

BWC welcomes our newest member, Samson Enzer, partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and subsequent jitters at USDC shall serve as a reminder that stablecoin regulation remains far too lax. Circle, the U.S. company and issuer of USDC, a stablecoin denominated in U.S. dollar, is mostly regulated in the U.S. as a money transmitter.

BWC vice-chair William Rhodes: "a good deal of it lies with the former Trump administration and those members of Congress who listened to bank lobbyists and decided it would be wise to lighten the regulatory and capital burden on so-called smaller banks."

BWC member Hung Tran argues "a much better approach would have been to protect large depositors up to the value of the closed banks’ high-quality bond portfolios, which are eligible as collateral to borrow from the newly launched Bank Term Funding Program."

"The original sin of modern banking is financing long-term loans and investments with money (demand and savings deposits)," argues BWC member Warren Coats. He continues: "Money... should be fully separated from credit. Deposits should not finance loans."