What Does The SEC Approved NASDAQ Diversity Proposal Mean For Boards?
Financing Challenges for Small Cap Companies
The first bank to meet its demise in 2024 is smaller than its 2023 counterparts. In 2023 we saw Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and First Republic Bank (“First Republic”) fail. The most recent bank to experience a failure bears a...more
On March 10, 2023, volatility resulting from concerns regarding runs on certain banks triggered trading halts in those banks’ stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq. March 13, 2023, saw additional trading...more
Regulatory Developments - Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposed Principles for Large Banking Organizations to Manage Climate-Related Financial Risks - On December 2, the Federal Reserve announced that it...more
Introduction In April 2022, the UK Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") finalized new rules to encourage the disclosure of diversity data by listed companies, whether based in the UK or abroad. Across the pond, the U.S....more
In a major reversal of recent trends, workers at an Amazon warehouse not far from the first to unionize just last month rejected a similar effort to organize by a 2-1 margin. The result “was a setback for the upstart Amazon...more
If you watch enough cooking shows (some of us may have watched too many during the past year of social isolation), you’ll notice that almost every chef has an obsession with the source and quality of their ingredients. The...more
In This Issue. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) expanded access to its Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility (PPPLF) to non-bank lenders and expanded the collateral eligible to...more
Financial institutions M&A sector trends: stock exchanges/clearing houses — H1 2019 and outlook for H2 2019. CURRENT MARKET - Upward. WE ARE SEEING - Inorganic expansion by larger exchanges: Horizontally (e.g.,...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal Asian, US, European and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to Asian corporates and financial institutions. ...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal European, U.S. and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to European corporates. ...more
Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a request for information regarding the consumer complaint reporting process, marking the sixth request in a series of RFIs; the House...more
On July 21, Delaware governor John C. Carney Jr. signed into law a series of amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) that will allow companies to keep shareholder information on blockchain technology-based...more
Dan Nossa recently attended a conference at Rice University focused on blockchain technology. It was a first of its kind for the city and one of the things the attorney at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC’s Houston office noted was the...more
On February 10th, the SEC took action to formally approve of changes proposed by the NASDAQ Stock Market, NYSE MKT LLC, and New York Stock Exchange LLC’s, to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer...more
Merrill Lynch has already staked out the position in response to the DOL’s retirement account fiduciary duty rule that it would no longer offer commission-based IRAs to retirement savers. Yesterday, it effectively doubled...more
More details have emerged from the February cyberheist that resulted in the theft of more than $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the NY Fed, including a pretty significant lack of critical concern from the bank itself....more
And just like that, Uber’s ride-hailing war in China is over (for now, at least). Uber has agreed to sell Uber China to rival Didi Chuxing [though maintaining a 20% stake in the new company], creating a new company worth an...more
If a purchaser’s goals shift to include influence on the business management or board composition of the target issuer, an HSR filing must be considered. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) has once again...more
The NYSE has filed a proposed rule change that is immediately effective. The NYSE proposes to amend Section 202.06 of the Listed Company Manual to: - expand the pre-market hours during which listed companies are required...more
Over the last 15 years, financial institutions have paid billions of dollars to settle claims that they colluded with each other. Below, we discuss four separate matters, beginning with the Nasdaq spread cases in the late...more