After a long lead up, the five agencies (Agencies) with responsibility for the regulations that implement the Volcker Rule (Regulations) have issued a wide ranging proposal to tailor the application of the Regulations in...more
6/15/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Comment Period ,
Covered Funds ,
Deregulation ,
Economic Growth Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Hedging ,
Liquidity Risk Management Rule ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proprietary Trading ,
Public Comment ,
Regulatory Burden ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Volcker Rule
President Trump on May 21, 2018 signed a Joint Resolution passed by Congress that disapproved the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s March 21, 2013 Bulletin on Indirect Auto Lending and Compliance with the Equal Credit...more
Highlights
- On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed the Small Business Credit Availability Act (the Act), which aims to increase the availability of funding to small to mid-sized private U.S. companies and startups by...more
3/27/2018
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Business Development Companies ,
Capital Formation ,
Capital Raising ,
Deregulation ,
Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
Proxy Access Rule ,
Registration Requirement ,
Securities Act of 1933 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Small Business ,
Small Business Credit Availability Act ,
Tax Credits ,
Trump Administration
During the Trump Administration’s first year in office, it has implemented major new policy approaches and engaged in significant reversals of Obama Administration policies in many areas. In contrast, the Administration to...more
1/16/2018
/ Asset Management ,
Banks ,
Capital Markets ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Credit Unions ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Financial Regulatory Agencies ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FSOC ,
Insurance Industry ,
Liquidity ,
Repeal ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
SIFIs ,
Trump Administration ,
Volcker Rule
The FSB continues to plan to revisit whether there are residual entity-specific sources of systemic risk that cannot be addressed effectively by market-wide activities-based policies that would support global systemically...more