Delivered at Dartmouth College on June 11, 2013 and at NYU Law School on September 30, Mr Downey poses "The Case for Banking Reform" ...

Robert N. Downey, former Securities Industry Association chairman, on the separation of investment and commercial banking, and how to avoid another bailout...

Prohibitions on proprietary trading will be hard to enforce. There’s a better way...

The article below, published in 1990, articulates the plan put forward by the SIA to “maintain the brakes on the car” of Federal Deposit Insurance. Though this article is over two decades old, it still articulates Mr. Downey’s views on healthy bank reform so well that it requires inclusion...