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The FinReg Pod

Jan 25, 2021

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs,  have become one of the hottest things in finance over the past year. In this episode, Shami Patel talks about why SPACs have become an attractive option for private companies that want to go public, how a typical SPAC is structured, and his thoughts on some of the...


Jan 21, 2021

Liam Vaughan discusses the incredible story of how the price of oil went to negative $38 per barrel on April 20th, 2020 and the tight knit crew of suburban London traders who made a king’s ransom when it did. Liam is a senior reporter with Bloomberg and Businessweek magazine in London. His December 10th article in...


Jan 11, 2021

2020 was a critical year in the continued expansion of the cryptocurrency market and not just because the year ended with Bitcoin’s price at an all-time high of close to $30,000. In this episode, Tim Swanson breaks down major developments in the cryptocurrency market over the past year; from the rise of stablecoins...


Jan 3, 2021

Terri Friedline is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and author of the recently released book: Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial Technology Won’t Save a Broken System. The book examines how the existing financial system discriminates against the poor and people of color,...