Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Data Privacy and Portability in Financial Technology Symposium (February 23, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58000 58000-14390313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 8:30am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

The Data Privacy and Portability in Financial Technology Symposium celebrates Michigan Technology Law Review’s 25th Anniversary by hosting an event dedicated to cutting edge scholarship at the intersection of technology and the law. Specifically, this symposium is designed to examine the inherent tensions between securing privacy rights and the ease at which transactions occur, facilitated by new innovative technologies.

Data portability is the idea that a consumer should own his or her own data and should be able to tell companies to use it, transfer it to another company, or destroy it. Every day, hundreds of millions of transactions occur between parties. Nearly everyone uses financial products that harvest data—credit cards, online shopping, stock market trends. New technologies allow people and organizations to record, analyze, and indefinitely store data points associated with these transactions more easily than ever before.

Many of those in the financial technology world assert that this aggregation of consumer data should be able to be sold to and owned by third parties. This would increase competition in the financial service sector and facilitate the development of more complex algorithms used to deliver financial services. Collecting information on consumer habits could lead to innovation in predicting market trends and could allow custom tailoring to individual consumer needs. Many banks, however, contend that opening up consumer information to third parties raises serious risks of fraud and abuse. Both sides of the debate advocate for the consumer’s interest: banks on the grounds of security and privacy, and the fintech sector on the grounds of access and innovation.

The symposium will address the legal issues implicated by the exciting and rapidly developing world of financial technology, such as: Who owns a customer’s financial data? How will the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) influence how companies handle customer data? How can U.S. policymakers construct a sensible policy framework suited to the particular regulatory and technical attributes of the U.S. consumer financial services sector? And how should we conceive of increased liability for companies and what does that mean for organizations’ relationships with consumers, stockholders, lenders and the like?

Visit www.mtlr-fintech-symposium-2019.com to learn more

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:10:41 -0500 2019-02-23T08:30:00-05:00 2019-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 South Hall Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
Perspectives on the Future of Paid Family Leave (March 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62077 62077-15284750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing information.

Please join us for a Conversation Across Difference as Dr. Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and Ford Professor Betsey Stevenson discuss their perspectives on Paid Family Leave.

From the speakers' bios:

Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), studies Social Security reform, state and local government pensions, and public sector pay and benefits. Before joining AEI, Biggs was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), overseeing SSA’s policy research efforts. In 2005, as an associate director of the White House National Economic Council, he worked on Social Security reform. In 2001, he joined the staff of the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Biggs has published widely in academic publications as well as in daily newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He has also testified before Congress on numerous occasions. In 2013, the Society of Actuaries appointed Biggs co-vice chair of a blue ribbon panel tasked with analyzing the causes of underfunding in public pension plans and how governments can securely fund plans in the future. In 2014, Institutional Investor Magazine named him one of the 40 most influential people in the retirement world. In 2016, he was appointed by President Obama to be a member of the financial control board overseeing reforms to Puerto Rico’s budget and the restructuring of the island’s debts. Biggs holds a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, master’s degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Betsey Stevenson is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. She is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and serves on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association. Betsey recently completed a two-year term as an appointed member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011. Stevenson is a labor economist whose research focuses on the impact of public policies on the labor market. Her research explores women's labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and the potential value of subjective well-being data for public policy.

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the AEI Executive Council at Michigan and WeListen.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:38:49 -0400 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Perspectives on the Future of Paid Family Leave
Alumni Connection: Dan Katz (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62075 62075-15284749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Dan will focus on his experience in forging a path in finance with an LSA background. He will also discuss his current role at Ares and how people with different backgrounds have been successful in the finance industry.

Drop by the Hub before the session (anytime from noon-5 p.m.) — we’ll be gathering to do research, draft questions, and talk do’s and don’ts during an Alumni Connections event.

This workshop is intended for LSA undergraduate students; we look forward to seeing you!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:15:40 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Lecture / Discussion Laptop on table
Economic Dignity (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62638 62638-15416697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

POLICY TALKS @ THE FORD SCHOOL

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website before the event starts for viewing information.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

From the speaker's bio:

The only person to serve as director of the National Economic Council under two Presidents, Gene Sperling provides unique perspective and insights on the intersection between the U.S. and global economy and the most pressing economic policy issues of the day.

From serving as director of the National Economic Council (NEC) for both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to consulting for four seasons on NBC’s award-winning political drama The West Wing, Sperling is widely respected across the political spectrum as one of the top White House economic advisors with a reputation for merging economic policy and economic analysis to get things done. As NEC director, Sperling was the President’s economic adviser responsible for coordinating economic policy and chairing policy meetings with the economic cabinet. The New York Times has called Sperling "a prolific idea generator." Under President Obama, he served as a key negotiator on fiscal issues and an architect of the payroll tax cut, expansions of tax credits for low-income Americans, the Small Business Jobs Act and the American Jobs Act. Under President Clinton, Sperling was a key architect of the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act and its major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and a top negotiator of the 1997 Bipartisan Balanced Budget Act, He also served as senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, where he helped navigate the financial crisis and was a member of the President’s Auto Task Force and the Treasury’s point person for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Currently, Sperling heads Sperling Economic Strategies and writes as a contributing editor for The Atlantic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:30:33 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Gene Sperling