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On 9 December 2025, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published on its website a set of seven consultation papers to support the implementation of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution...more
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a practices paper outlining how authorities can operationalise transfer tools to ensure the orderly resolution of failing banks without taxpayer losses. Transfer tools, a key...more
The banking industry is on the cusp of more changes in recovery and resolution planning, shaped by shifting regulatory priorities and perspectives on the 2023 regional bank failures. Recent actions by the FDIC and OCC have...more
On October 27, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that it is seeking public comment on its proposal to eliminate certain recovery planning guidelines applicable to insured national banks,...more
On October 27, the OCC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) rescinding Appendix E to 12 CFR 30, which establishes guidelines for recovery planning for large national banks, federal savings associations (FSAs), and...more
Navigating the complex landscape of lien resolutions in mass torts is a challenge for both plaintiffs’ and defense attorneys. One of the biggest hurdles is complying with federal and state regulations to resolve health care...more
This Q&A guide to restructuring and insolvency law in the British Virgin Islands gives a high level overview of the most common forms of security granted over immovable and movable property; creditors' and shareholders'...more
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its third year, and we continue to see unprecedented levels of activity and instability with public clashes between world leaders, trade wars, and critical foreign aid cuts by...more
This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in the Cayman Islands and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics including the local legal framework, the main stages of a fraud...more
Allen Matkins takes great pride in our California roots and strong ties to the Los Angeles community, and we are profoundly saddened by the devastation caused by the wildfires in our state. We are deeply committed to...more
In this episode of “Don’t Take No for An Answer,” Eric Jesse, partner in Lowenstein Sandler’s Insurance Recovery Group, is joined by Alexander B. Corson to discuss bad faith in insurance claims. Highlighting a recent example...more
Situation Overview: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized revisions to Recovery Planning Guidelines, which substantively change the scope and expectations for recovery plans. What: The OCC is...more
On October 21, 2024, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized revisions to its Guidelines Establishing Standards for Recovery Planning by Certain Large Insured National Banks, Insured Federal Savings...more
Undertakings in difficulty, in the context of Solvency II, refers to insurers that are either failing or likely to fail to meet their solvency capital requirement (SCR) or their minimum capital requirement (MCR) (together,...more
HM Treasury has published a draft new chapter for the Special Resolution Regime Code of Practice that reflects reforms introduced by the Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill....more
Legislators returned to Raleigh on Thursday and unanimously passed a second Disaster Recovery bill (S 743). The bill appropriates $644 million and makes various policy changes to facilitate storm recovery. Gov. Roy Cooper is...more
The key to the timely completion of a construction project is the preparation and maintenance of a comprehensive project schedule utilizing the critical path method (CPM) of scheduling. Preparation of a CPM schedule requires...more
Hurricane Helene made landfall late in the evening on Thursday, September 26, 2024, as a Category 4 storm. The Hurricane’s “largest impacts were across the southern Appalachians where widespread severe and unprecedented...more
The House and Senate passed the legislation unanimously yesterday afternoon, and Governor Cooper moved quickly to sign the bill into law this morning, making the bill effective today, October 10, 2024. House Bill 149...more
Over the past 20 years, technology has changed the way we communicate, conduct business, and live. It is rare to walk down a city street and not see a person using some type of technology. It has become an integral and...more
The European Banking Authority published its 2025 European Resolution Examination Programme report. The report sets three priorities for resolution authorities and banks for 2025 and looks at the progress achieved in 2023,...more
Today on “Don’t Take No for an Answer,” Eric Jesse and Alexander B. Corson discuss Aearo Technologies v. ACE American, in which a Delaware court held 3M could not credit $372 million it paid in defense costs against...more
Matt Bisanz interviews former financial regulator Jason Cave to discuss developments in resolution and recovery planning, as well as trends in third-party risk management....more
The Bank of England has published the findings from its second assessment of the eight major U.K. banks under the Resolvability Assessment Framework. The assessment finds that the major U.K. banks have continued to make...more
The House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee announced that it has reopened the following inquiries into: The Financial Conduct Authority's enforcement guidance consultation (CP24/2). The deadline for...more