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The Federal Reserve Board's proposed new risk management requirements for firms requiring enhanced supervision

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 22 2012

Much has been written about the increasing responsibilities of the Board of Directors for risk oversight and the changes in corporate governance that these additional responsibilities often require

Lessons learned from the first public CFPB enforcement action

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 13 2012

Charging unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices ("UDAAP") in its first public enforcement action, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") issued a Consent Order to Capital One Bank (USA), N.A. (the "Bank") on July 17, 2012 for allegedly "deceptive acts or practices" in connection with the marketing, sales and operation of payment protection and credit monitoring products to credit card consumers (the "CFPB Consent Order"

The role of information technology risk assessment in enterprise risk management

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 6 2012

The new andor emerging risks that management and Boards of Directors face today include those arising from rapid transformation in the delivery of technological solutions, including dramatic changes resulting from the increased use of "cloud" computing

CFTC releases proposed regulations on process for DCMS and SEFs to make a swap available to trade

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2012

Section 723(a)(3) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (''Dodd-Frank") requires that swaps subject to mandatory clearing must be executed on a designated contract market ("DCM") or swap execution facility ("SEF"), unless no DCM or SEF "makes the swap available to trade."

Changes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: representation and warranty framework

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2012

On September 11, 2012, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, together with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the "GSEs"), announced changes to the GSEs' representation and warranty framework for conventional single family loans that meet the payment history and other requirements established by the GSEs, and that are sold or delivered to the GSEs on or after January 1, 2013

Living wills in the UK and US for systemically important financial institutions

  • Dentons
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • October 24 2011

On October 3, 2011, the Financial Stability Board announced that it had approved "the package of policy measures to be submitted to the G20's November summit to address the 'too big to fail' problems" posed by systemically important financial institutions

CFPB proposed rules on national servicing standards

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

Recently, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") published comprehensive proposed rules (the "Proposed Rules") in the nature of national servicing standards applicable to servicers of residential mortgage loans

CFPB’s first Annual Report regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2012

On March 20, 2012, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB" or "Bureau") submitted its first Annual Report ("Report") to Congress regarding its administration of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") during the previous year

Mortgage servicing update: government, servicers reach $25 billion settlement

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2012

The US federal government and 49 state attorneys general have reached an unprecedented $25 billion settlement agreement (the Agreement) with five of the nation's largest mortgage servicers ("the Servicers"): Bank of America Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Company Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. (formerly GMAC

Financial Stability Board identifies 29 global SIFIs and announces agreed policy measures

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • November 7 2011

On November 4, 2011, the Financial Stability Board (the "FSB"), an international board with a mandate from the G-20 Leaders to "develop a policy framework to address the systemic and moral hazard risks associated with systemically important financial institutions" ("SIFIs"), identified the first 29 SIFI banking groups ("G-SIBs") to be listed as global SIFIs ("G-SIFIs") based upon their size, complexity and systemic interconnectedness