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Press Release

Mar 8, 2016

President Obama Nominates Chris Brummer to Commodity Futures Trading Commission

By Atlantic Council

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama announced Thursday his intent to nominate Chris Brummer, C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Finance and Growth for the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program and Project Director and Founder of the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative, as a Commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

In the News

Dec 1, 2015

Brummer on China’s Renminbi

By Chris Brummer

The New York Times quotes Global Business and Economics C. Boyden Gray Fellow Chris Brummer on one of the potential challenges of the growing popularity of China’s currency in the absence of thoughtful geostrategic planning—the possible circumvention of Western sanctions:

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Event Recap

Nov 23, 2015

Chris Brummer Speaks on RMB Internationalization at Financial and Risk Summit in Toronto

By Global Business and Economics

On November 23, 2015, Chris Brummer, the C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance at the Atlantic Council, spoke alongside Mingxuan Zhu, President and CEO, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Susan Gammage, Thomson Reuters’ Head of FX Transactions Sales, Americas, Janet L. Ecker, President and CEO, Toronto Financial Services Alliance, and Jeffrey […]

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Event Recap

Sep 23, 2015

Renminbi Internationalization in Volatile Markets

By Global Business and Economics

On Friday, September 18, the Transatlantic Finance Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program hosted a high-level panel to discuss the internationalization of China’s currency (Renminbi) in today’s volatile markets and its significance for foreign, regulatory, and monetary policy both in Chinese and world markets. The event marked the conclusion of a […]

Event Recap

Jul 8, 2015

Atlantic Council Co-Sponsors Conference on Extraterritoriality in Financial Regulation

By Chris Lyon

On June 26, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative co-sponsored a conference concerning the extraterritoriality organized by Oxford University Press’s Journal of Financial Regulation at Georgetown Law. Regulators, diplomats, lawyers and academics met for a three panel series of papers, followed by regulatory commentary, on a variety of issues including: mutual recognition, economic diplomacy, sanctions, […]

In the News

Jun 25, 2015

Global Capital Features Atlantic Council Report on RMB Infrastructure

By Atlantic Council

Global Capital features the Atlantic Council report RENMINBI ASCENDING: How China’s Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation in an article on why the RMB needs infrastructure and co-operation to become a global currency: 

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In the News

Jun 22, 2015

Treasury Management International Highlights Renminbi Ascending

By Atlantic Council

Treasury Management International features the Atlantic Council report Renminbi Ascending: How China’s Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation authored by C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance Chris Brummer:

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Report

Jun 22, 2015

Renminbi ascending: How China’s currency impacts global markets, foreign policy, and transatlantic financial regulation

By Chris Brummer

How will the rise of China’s currency impact global markets, foreign policy, and transatlantic financial regulation? The report, titled “How China’s Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation” offers and elaborates on five principles for an effective internationalization process of the RMB: Agenda setting should be pragmatic, not aspirational; Reforms in legal […]

China Economy & Business

In the News

May 14, 2015

Brummer on the Trade Legislation Before Congress

By Chris Brummer

Politifact quotes Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance Chris Brummer on trade negotiations and financial regulations:

Trade in Action

Nov 21, 2014

TTIP and Trade figure prominently on the G20 and post-G20 Agenda

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP: Towards an Ambitious and Forward- Looking PartnershipThe former chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, Vital Moreira, looks at the potential benefits of TTIP for both producers and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic, using Portugal as a case in point. To him the success of an agreement of this impact rests […]

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