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Brooksley Elizabeth Born [1] (born August 27, 1940) [1] is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996, to June 1, 1999, was chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency which oversees the U.S. futures and commodity options markets. [2] During her tenure on the CFTC, Born lobbied ...
Brooksley Born, former head of the CFTC, talks about her concerns and efforts to regulate the opaque and risky over-the-counter derivatives market in the 1990s. She faced opposition from Greenspan, Rubin and Summers, who prevailed upon Congress to limit her authority.
Brooksley Born warned about the risks of derivatives. Originally published May 31, 2009 at 12:00 am. A little more than a decade ago, Born foresaw a financial cataclysm, accurately predicting that ...
Brooksley Born is a retired lawyer and former chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She advocated for derivatives regulation and served on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the Systemic Risk Council.
Mar 4, 2024 · The story of Brooksley Born is not only the tale of a remarkable regulator whose Cassandra-like warnings — if heeded — could've prevented the great financial crisis from exploding into raging ...
Brooksley Born, JD '64, was the chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the 1990s. She advocated for regulating financial derivatives, but faced opposition from Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and other powerful figures in Washington.
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Brooksley Born is a former CFTC chair and a lawyer who advocated for derivatives regulation. She received the Profile in Courage Award in 2009 for her stance on over-the-counter derivatives market oversight.
