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inlawrev-18349	Nicholson, Lisa H	Corporate Governance in the Financial Services Industry: Dodd-Frank Reforms to Banker Compensation Arrangements	2015	36	.pdf	application/pdf	18548	765	46	In 2009, the Obama Administration publicly called for heightened oversight of executive compensation at all banks amid increased public fury over the payment of executive bonuses by some firms who were viewed by the public as the * Professor of Law, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. The legislation, which focused primarily on regulations for financial institutions, was developed as a means to avert systemic failures in the future and its provisions are designed to improve transparency and accountability in the capital and financial markets going forward.6 To that end, the Dodd-Frank Act (which takes up approximately 2,300 pages) reaches nearly every facet of the banking and financial services industry including reform of the regulations of mortgage origination and securitizations, derivatives trading, proprietary trading, credit rating agencies, corporate governance generally, and executive compensation in particular.7 Since the legislation requires significant rule-making by various federal regulatory authorities—much of which has yet to be adopted, it is still too soon to tell conclusively how effective the Dodd-Frank Act will be in deterring future failures, and the ensuing harm to the nation’s financial system.	cache/inlawrev-18349.pdf	txt/inlawrev-18349.txt