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
The SEC has proposed all of its major Title VII rules regulating the security-based swaps market. The authors discuss the current status of this and related rulemakings, the relief the SEC has granted, and the provisions of...more
On October 11, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued proposed rules to address certain issues related to the cross-border application of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more
Last month the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) issued proposed new rules (the “Proposed Rules”) intended to reduce the potential risks posed to the U.S. financial system by too-big-to-fail...more
6/30/2016
/ Banks ,
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Stability Acts ,
FSB ,
Global Economy ,
ISDA ,
Liquidation ,
Proposed Rules
On March 16, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) approved a final rule that eliminates the reporting and recordkeeping requirements in current CFTC regulations for trade option counterparties that are...more
On September 14, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a final rule requiring introducing brokers (IBs), commodity pool operators (CPOs), and most commodity trading advisors (CTAs) to become members...more
10/5/2015
/ CFTC ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ,
CPOs ,
De Minimus Quantity Exemption ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Final Rules ,
Introducing Brokers ,
National Futures Association ,
Registered Futures Association Membership ,
Swaps
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 April 30, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) approved for publication in the Federal Register proposed amendments to the trade option exemption (the “Proposal”) that would reduce reporting and...more
On December 18, 2014, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”) issued an order extending for an additional year – i.e., until July 21, 2016 – the Volcker Rule conformance period for banking entities to...more
On December 16, 2014, President Barack Obama limited the scope of swaps and security-based swaps subject to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act’s (“Dodd-Frank Act’s”) pushout requirement to certain...more
12/23/2014
/ Asset-Backed Securities ,
Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Barack Obama ,
Dodd-Frank ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
Foreign Banks ,
Push-Out Requirements ,
Section 716 ,
Swaps
Nearly four years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”), on June 25, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted its first in a series of...more
On January 2, 2014, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC,” collectively, the “agencies”) signed “Memoranda of Understanding” regarding certain matters of...more
On November 5, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) proposed new speculative position limits. The proposal (“New Proposal”) would establish spot-month and non-spot-month limits for 28 core...more