people: Hester Peirce

Climate, News
August 1, 2023

US banks eye up ISSB ‘green guidelines’ amid SEC delays

New voluntary sustainability standards could become the default option for purpose-led US banks – in the teeth of ongoing delays...
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Crypto, Interviews
July 18, 2023

SEC’S Hester Peirce floats UK-US crypto sandbox idea

The senior Republican commissioner has proposed a joint UK-US crypto sandbox to boost innovation, as she steps up her criticisms...
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Michael S. Barr, vice chair for supervision at the US Federal Reserve, is pushing ahead with plans for US banks to set aside more capital
Editor's letter, Risk Management, Shadow Banking
July 14, 2023

Editor’s letter: Regulators grapple with AOCI and supervising shadow banks

Welcome to Banking Risk & Regulation.  The dust has settled since a string of US lenders collapsed this year, but...
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Climate, Interviews
July 10, 2023

SEC’s Hester Peirce accuses agency of sowing ESG ‘seeds of chaos’

Republican commissioner Hester Peirce launches her most scathing attack yet on the agency’s crowded policy agenda, at a time of...
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Climate
February 1, 2023

SEC climate disclosure rules unlikely to be effective, suggests commissioner

With the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to publish its final climate disclosure rules in April this year,...
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