On January 3, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced an order against and settlement with Polymarket, a blockchain-enabled prediction market that allows users to “bet” on the occurrence of certain...more
On July 29, 2021, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the “ARRC”) officially recommended for usage the forward-looking SOFR term rates (collectively, “Term SOFR”) published by...more
While the end of widespread use of the U.S. Dollar London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”)1 has been looming for several years, there have been a number of key developments recently in the transition away from LIBOR that...more
On March 23 the Federal Reserve announced the creation of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF to support the asset-backed securities (ABS) market. The new facility (commonly referred to in the market as...more
Borrowers under variable rate commercial loans commonly enter into interest rate hedge agreements to eliminate or reduce their exposure to the interest rate risk of their variable debt service obligations. ...more
On March 23, the Federal Reserve announced new measures it would be taking to support the credit markets and the broader economy in the face of the economic and credit disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and related...more
Clients who have engaged in Qualified Financial Contracts (QFCs)—which include derivatives, repurchase agreements and securities lending—with large financial institutions may have received, or may soon receive, a notice...more
On August 28, 2018, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a staff no-action letter allowing an anonymous individual financial institution...more
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The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”), signed into law on May 24, 2018, with immediate effect, amended multiple provisions of Dodd-Frank, including the capital requirements for loans...more