Legislative responses to recent banking industry failures could include reinstating various rules that formerly applied to banks with more than $100 billion in assets. There are a variety of measures which bank depositors...more
On March 11, 2022, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14068 (E.O. 14068) imposing new restrictions on imports and exports with respect to Russia as well as on the supply of U.S. dollar-denominated banknotes to the...more
Here’s the deal: Section 3(a)(2) bank note programs are medium-term note programs with a “bank” as the issuer The issuer must be a “bank,” as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act Bank note...more
The Nevada Supreme Court recently reversed – or at least clarified – the impact of MERS in Nevada under the approach set forth in the Restatement (Third) of Property: Mortgages. The Supreme Court had held in 2012 that at the...more
The UCC was supposed to make enforcing negotiable instruments a simpler, more streamlined process. It has proven anything but in Florida. Continuing a trend that now stretches back years, mortgage lenders have had an...more