Expertise: Financial regulation, consumer financial protection
Gregg Gelzinis is an associate director for Economic Policy at American Progress. Gelzinis focuses primarily on financial institutions, financial markets, and consumer finance policy. His analysis has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Before joining American Progress in 2016, Gelzinis completed a graduate school fellowship at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Office of Financial Institutions. During his undergraduate career, he held internships at Swiss Re, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, and in the office of Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI). Gelzinis graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in government and a master’s degree in American government, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a Massachusetts native and a die-hard Boston sports fan.
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| Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risk Through Bank Capital Requirements | Center for American Progress | May 11, 2021 |
| 5 Priorities for the Financial Stability Oversight Council | Center for American Progress | March 31, 2021 |
| The Fed’s Oil and Gas Bailout Is a Mistake | Center for American Progress | July 31, 2020 |
| Financial Markets and Regulators Are Still in the Dark on Climate Change | Center for American Progress | June 29, 2020 |
| Making the Fed Rescue Serve Everyone in the Aftermath of the Coronavirus Pandemic | Center for American Progress | May 14, 2020 |
| Bank Capital and the Coronavirus Crisis | Center for American Progress | May 12, 2020 |
| The Fed Must Reject Stealth Cut of Bank Capital Requirements | The FinReg Blog | December 5, 2019 |
| Climate Change Threatens the Stability of the Financial System | Center for American Progress | November 21, 2019 |
| Climate Change Is a Financial Crisis, Too | Bloomberg | November 19, 2019 |
| Strengthening the Regulation and Oversight of Shadow Banks | Center for American Progress | July 18, 2019 |
| Fact Sheet: A Stronger Regulatory Framework for Shadow Banks | Center for American Progress | July 18, 2019 |
| Tailoring Banking Regulations to Accelerate the Next Crisis | Center for American Progress | May 16, 2019 |
| 5 Regulatory Questions for Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell | Center for American Progress | February 26, 2019 |
| Regulators need to be stress-tested, too | American Banker | February 22, 2019 |
| How Workers Get Paid Is Changing: Consumer Protections Need to Catch Up | Center for American Progress | January 17, 2019 |
| Gutting Wall Street capital requirement would be reckless | MarketWatch | December 11, 2018 |
| Danger lurks in latest deregulatory push | American Banker | November 13, 2018 |
| Hollowing Out the Volcker Rule | Center for American Progress | October 3, 2018 |
| It’s Time for the Fed to Activate Safeguards Against Financial Bubbles | MarketWatch | August 1, 2018 |
| Trump Nominee for Financial Stability Agency Sought to Eliminate It | American Banker | July 27, 2018 |
| Regulators’ Dangerous Plan to Carve Up the Volcker Rule | American Banker | June 18, 2018 |
| Opinion: This Is Not the Time to Loosen Rules on Bank Capital | MarketWatch | May 2, 2018 |
| 5 Questions for the Fed’s Vice Chairman for Supervision | Center for American Progress | April 17, 2018 |
| Mnuchin’s Ill-Advised Plan on Nonbank SIFIs | American Banker | April 10, 2018 |
| The Fed’s Proposed Stress Testing Changes Are a Mixed Bag | Center for American Progress | March 20, 2018 |
| Fact Sheet: The Senate’s Bipartisan Dodd-Frank Rollback Bill | Center for American Progress | February 28, 2018 |
| Don’t Put SIFI Designations on the Back Burner | American Banker | January 29, 2018 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-December 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | January 4, 2018 |
| Scrapping $50B Threshold Will Let 30 Big Banks off the Hook | American Banker | December 18, 2017 |
| 5 Features of Successful Housing Finance Reform | Center for American Progress | December 14, 2017 |
| Senate’s Bipartisan Dodd-Frank Rollback Proposal Is a Raw Deal | Morning Consult | December 8, 2017 |
| The Trump Administration Is Quietly Slashing Financial Stability Funding | Center for American Progress | December 7, 2017 |
| Resisting Financial Deregulation | Center for American Progress | December 4, 2017 |
| 3 Flawed Banking Industry Arguments Against a Key Postcrisis Capital Requirement | Center for American Progress | October 27, 2017 |
| Recovering from Hurricane Maria Requires an Extensive Federal Response | Center for American Progress | October 12, 2017 |
| Deregulating AIG Was a Mistake | Center for American Progress | October 11, 2017 |
| AIG is no longer too big to fail and taxpayers deserve to know why | The Hill | October 10, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-September 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | October 5, 2017 |
| Mnuchin shows no interest in continuing FSOC’s hedge fund inquiry | American Banker | September 22, 2017 |
| Hedge Funds and Systemic Risk Missing From the FSOC’s Agenda | Center for American Progress | September 21, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-August 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | August 31, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-July 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | July 6, 2017 |
| Treasury wants to weaken a crucial post-crisis capital requirement | American Banker | June 20, 2017 |
| The Financial CHOICE Act Is the Wrong Choice for the U.S. Economy | Morning Consult | June 5, 2017 |
| How the Trump Budget Threatens the American People | Center for American Progress | May 26, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-May 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | May 4, 2017 |
| President Trump’s Dangerous CHOICE | Center for American Progress | April 19, 2017 |
| An Analysis of the House Republicans’ Plan to Dismantle Financial Reform | Center for American Progress | April 19, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-April 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | April 6, 2017 |
| The Importance of Dodd-Frank, in 6 Charts | Center for American Progress | March 27, 2017 |
| Approximated Employment Effects of the American Health Care Act | Center for American Progress | March 20, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-March 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | March 9, 2017 |
| Questions for the Potential Next Sheriff of Wall Street | Center for American Progress | March 8, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-February 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | February 2, 2017 |
| Feds need means to deal with next AIG | American Banker | February 2, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-January 2017 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | January 5, 2017 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-December 2016 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | December 1, 2016 |
| Phantom Illiquidity | Center for American Progress | November 15, 2016 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-November 2016 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | November 3, 2016 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-October 2016 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | October 6, 2016 |
| The State of the U.S. Labor Market: Pre-September 2016 Jobs Release | Center for American Progress | September 1, 2016 |
