Your input is absolutely spot-on. IMHO, MapTheBanks should be enticing people to join to make it faster and easier to perform the kind of Palantir-like big data intelligence analysis upon relationships between entities that make it feasible to identify influences. Hoping to "nail" someone for their part in the crisis is interesting and looking to the past that cannot be changed.
More forward-looking is the following. Make it easy for the public to formulate queries and datamine against a structured dataset and unstructured data to accrete competing, evolving intelligence analysis models (that square off in prediction markets for rankings) of market entities (including individual executive participants).
This could be a far more powerful deterrent against activities that have bad optics than any regulatory framework. It can also drive a useful feedback mechanism to tell the regulators (via a mass of competing models all screaming for it) what objective data is needed to refine the models' predictive capabilities when backtesting revealed data in the aftermath of market failures like 2008.
OpenCorporates could get some funds by running the exchange services for the prediction markets, and/or setting a small fixed cut for supplying the platform to intelligence analyst teams that use the system for selling competitive intelligence analysis services to anyone who wants them to focus on a specific detail using their specific model (perhaps through metering API access to the data and processing instead of only GUI-level notebook-style access).
More forward-looking is the following. Make it easy for the public to formulate queries and datamine against a structured dataset and unstructured data to accrete competing, evolving intelligence analysis models (that square off in prediction markets for rankings) of market entities (including individual executive participants).
This could be a far more powerful deterrent against activities that have bad optics than any regulatory framework. It can also drive a useful feedback mechanism to tell the regulators (via a mass of competing models all screaming for it) what objective data is needed to refine the models' predictive capabilities when backtesting revealed data in the aftermath of market failures like 2008.
OpenCorporates could get some funds by running the exchange services for the prediction markets, and/or setting a small fixed cut for supplying the platform to intelligence analyst teams that use the system for selling competitive intelligence analysis services to anyone who wants them to focus on a specific detail using their specific model (perhaps through metering API access to the data and processing instead of only GUI-level notebook-style access).