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FSOC designates eight systemically significant financial market utilities

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2012

Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Payment, Clearing and Settlement Supervision Act of 2010) has the purpose of mitigating financial risk in the financial system and promoting financial stability by giving the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve authority to set risk management standards for entities that have been designated as systemically important financial utilities by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC

ISDA publishes long-awaited Equity Derivatives Definitions

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 15 2011

On July 8, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) published its 2011 Equity Derivatives Definitions

FSOC issues two studies and one proposed rule

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2011

On January 18, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) took three actions to satisfy statutory obligations imposed on it under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

SEC retains existing rules on beneficial ownership and derivatives

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 18 2011

Section 766 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act specifies that the Securities and Exchange Commission must set rules to determine the extent to which a security-based swap will be deemed to involve the acquisition of beneficial ownership of underlying equity securities for the purposes of Sections 13 and 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

ISDA collateral developments

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • December 9 2011

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is responsible for a trio of recent developments with respect to the collateralization of derivative transactions using ISDA Credit Support Annexes

CFTC, SEC finalize swap product definitions

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 7 2012

On July 9 and 10, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission (collectively, the “Commissions”) approved joint final rules and interpretations (the “Swap Definitions”) regarding the definition and regulation of swaps, security-based swaps, mixed swaps and security-based swap agreements

ISDA Dodd-Frank protocol opened for adherence

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • August 24 2012

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has published its August 2012 DF Protocol

FINRA proposes rules affecting broker-dealers participating in private placements

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission is requesting comments on a proposal to expand Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Rule 5122 to apply to all private placements in which a member firm participates, not just those in which the member firm (or its control entity) is the issuer

Industry groups respond to DOJ recommendation regarding tighter ownership restrictions for DCMs, DCOs and SEFs

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2011

The ABA Securities Association, the Clearing House Association, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (the Industry Groups) have submitted a comment letter with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in response to a comment letter submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) urging the implementation of more-stringent rules relating to ownership and conflicts of interest for designated contract markets (DCMs), derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) and swap execution facilities (SEFs

ISDA to publish illegalityforce majeure protocol

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • June 21 2012

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) is publishing a new protocol to assist derivatives counterparties with their Eurozone contingency planning