The Center for Financial Market Regulation is a cooperative project of the financial services industry, regulatory organizations, and major law firms with the University at Albany and Albany Law School.

The Center oversees an undergraduate major and minor in Financial Market Regulation at the University at Albany and graduate and legal education in financial market regulation at the University at Albany and Albany Law School. The program is designed to graduate students who are capable of responding in sophisticated, flexible ways to current developments in financial markets, whether in entry-level professional practice or in graduate and law school. The Center also contributes to the theory and practice of financial market regulation through research connecting academic researchers’ specialized training with professionals’ knowledge and experience, engaging live issues facing regulators and supervisors.

Understanding the business of financial markets in order to know how regulations and controls affect business functions and to work credibly with those responsible for these functions.	Understanding the law of financial market regulation in order to know how rules apply to business functions and policy questions.	Understanding public policy in market regulation in order to anticipate how regulations should be designed given tradeoffs among competing considerations, to effectively negotiate often contentious issues, and to manage change in regulated firms and regulatory organizations.	Understanding the technology of information management and data analysis in order to work effectively with information systems essential to modern regulation and supervision

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