Gary Gensler

Investment Banker + Government Official

Male

Born Oct 18, 1957

Age 55

Hometown Baltimore, Maryland

Political Party Democratic Party ...

Religion Judaism

Alma Mater M.B.A. + Pikesvil...

Gary S. Gensler is the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama. Gensler was Undersecretary of the Treasury (1999-2001) and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1997-1999) in the United States. Barack Obama… Read More

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Democrats Join Gop To Deregulate Wall Street
Huffington Post - 5 days ago

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a slate of bills Wednesday intended to roll back recent financial reforms and deregulate derivatives, the complex financial products at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. The legislation aimed at the 2010 overhaul of financial regulation known as Dodd-Frank cleared with broad bipartisan backing. One bill passed despite strenuous objections from the White House, leading regulators and senior lawmakers such as Maxine Water...
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Speed Traders Eyed After Twitter Hack Attack: Regulator
Yahoo News - Apr 30, 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The phony tweet from the Associated Press' hacked Twitter account, which sparked a short-lived panic in the stock market a week ago by saying that President Barack Obama was injured in two explosions at the White House, underscored the need to look at regulating automated trading, the top U.S. derivatives regulator said on Tuesday. "I think that we do need to finalize a concept release that we've been working on for many moons here at the CFTC," Commodity Futures Tradi...
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Top Regulator Rips 'Unsustainable' Libor Rate
Huffington Post - Apr 22, 2013

* Benchmarks should be based on transactions-Gensler * Should also apply to oil, gold markets-Gensler (Recasts lead, adds Gensler on commodities, Wheatley Comments) By Huw Jones LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Two interest rate benchmarks that banks were fined for rigging should be scrapped and replaced by indicators based on market transactions, a top U.S. regulator said on Monday. The changes should also include ...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1957 Birth Gensler was born in Baltimore in 1957. … Read More

TWENTIES

1978 20 Years Old In 1978, he received a summa cum laude Economics B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. … Read More

1986 28 Years Old In 1986, he married Francesca Danieli Costagliola, a filmmaker and photo collagist. … Read More

THIRTIES

1988 30 Years Old Gary Gensler joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 and spent 18 years there. … Read More

1990 32 Years Old He also advised the National Football League in its television negotiations in 1990. … Read More

FORTIES

2000 42 Years Old 1 More Event

Gensler is the co-author of the 2000 book (with Greg Baer), The Great Mutual Fund Trap. … Read More

FIFTIES

2008 50 Years Old Gensler was a senior economic adviser to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008 and, after the Democratic Primary, the Obama campaign. … Read More

2009 51 Years Old In March 2009, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attempted to block his nomination to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. … Read More

2011 53 Years Old 1 More Event

In early November, 2011, Gensler stepped aside from the CFTC's investigation of the giant derivatives broker MF Global because of his longstanding ties to Jon Corzine, the CEO of MF Global, for whom Gensler had worked while both were at Goldman Sachs. … Read More

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