On December 15, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) setting forth standards to apply to controlling shareholders of industrial banks that are not subject to consolidated...more
Is it just us or does March 4 — the date of our last issue — feel like a million years ago? Like you, and not necessarily in this order, we have been: doing our work; keeping up with COVID-19-related laws, guidance, and...more
7/15/2020
/ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Arbitration ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
BSA/AML ,
CARES Act ,
Consent Order ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
CRA ,
Dodd-Frank ,
E-SIGN ,
Fair Lending ,
FASB ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
FinCEN ,
FinTech ,
HMDA ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) ,
OCC ,
Paycheck Protection Program Lending Facility (PPPLF) ,
Popular ,
Remittance Transfer Rule ,
Request For Information ,
RESPA ,
SPVs ,
TCPA ,
Volcker Rule
On August 20, 2019, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) approved a final rule (the “2019 Final Rule”) to amend the rules implementing Section 13 of the...more
On May 22, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives (“House”) passed S. 2155, the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.” The bill was passed on a bipartisan basis with a vote of 258-159. The bill...more
On June 8, 2017, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (the “CHOICE Act”) was passed on a party line vote by the U.S. House of Representatives, with nearly all Republicans voting in support and nearly all Democrats voting against...more
6/13/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Executive Orders ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Financial CHOICE Act ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Committee ,
FSOC ,
Trump Administration
Where do we go from here? As we mark another milestone in regulatory reform with the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, it strikes us that although most studies required to be undertaken by the Act...more
8/6/2015
/ Accredited Investors ,
AIF ,
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) ,
Capital Rules ,
CFTC ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Reporting Agencies ,
Covered Banking Entity ,
Covered Funds ,
Credit Cards ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Debt Collection ,
Derivatives ,
Dodd-Frank ,
ECOA ,
EMIR ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Exemptions ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Fair Lending ,
FDCPA ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Final Rules ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Transaction Tax ,
Foreign Banks ,
FSOC ,
HMDA ,
HOEPA ,
Incentive Compensation ,
Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
IOSCO ,
Liquidity Risk Management Rule ,
MiFID II ,
Mortgage Servicing Rules ,
NRSRO ,
OCC ,
Privacy Notice Rule ,
Proprietary Trading ,
Prudential Standards ,
Remittance Transfer Rule ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Security-Based Swaps ,
Shadow Banking ,
SIFIs ,
Stand-Alone SBSDs ,
Swap Execution Facilities ,
TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (TRID) ,
Transparency ,
Truth in Lending Act (TILA) ,
UCITS ,
UDAAP ,
Volcker Rule
On June 26, 2014, the Federal Reserve Board (“Board”) published on its website responses to frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) relating to enhanced prudential standards under Section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act and its...more
Last week, the Federal Reserve Board (the “Board”) issued its long-awaited final enhanced prudential rule (Regulation YY) under Section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act (the “Final Rule”) for bank holding companies and foreign...more
Final regulations under the section of the Dodd-Frank Act known as the “Volcker Rule” were enacted in December 2013 (the “Final Rule”) by five federal financial regulatory agencies (collectively, the “Agencies”). The Volcker...more
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Financial Stability Reform; Resolution Planning; Agencies and Agency Oversight Reform; Securitization Reform; Derivatives Regulation; Investor Protection Reform; Credit Rating Agency...more
12/29/2012
/ Capital Requirements ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Corporate Governance ,
Credit Ratings ,
Derivatives ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Financial Stability Acts ,
Foreign Banks ,
Mortgage Loan Originators ,
Mortgages ,
Securitization ,
Servicing Policies ,
Volcker Rule