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IOSCO consultation report on financial benchmarks

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • May 6 2013

As we have previously reported, a Task Force of the International Organization of Securities Commissions ("IOSCO") published a consultation on

Regulating retail structured productsthe IOSCO toolkit

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The regulation of retail structured products in established markets such as in Europe and the United States is not a new concept. Since the onset of

The UK’s Financial Services Act 2012: some key features

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 15 2013

In the late 1990s, the UK Financial Services Authority (the "FSA") was created by Gordon Brown, the incumbent-Chancellor of the Exchequer, combining

FCA temporary product intervention rules: nipping it in the bud

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 12 2013

The Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") has already made it clear that, in responding to threats relating to financial markets, will tolerate lower

Regulation R and bank sales of structured products

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

Federal and state banks, including those that are affiliated with issuers of structured products, remain important participants in the distribution

FINRA’s 2013 communication rules and revisions to MSDAs

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

In February 2013, FINRA's new rules relating to communications with the public became effective.1 These new rules have affected distributors who

A European financial transaction tax

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 15 2013

In September 2011, the European Commission initially proposed that a financial transaction tax ("FTT") be implemented by all 27 EU Member States

Avoiding armageddon: resolution regimes for central clearing counterparties

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • February 5 2013

The September 2009 resolutions of the G20 nations at their Pittsburgh summit, as to the compulsory centralised clearing of standardised

Out of the shadows and into the light

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • December 27 2012

For the last four years, regulators and law makers have been focusing extraordinary efforts on ensuring that financial regulation is adequate to protect

Revised FINRA communications rules: a summary table for market participants

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2012

As we approach the end of the year, and begin to plan for 2013, we remind readers that the effective date of FINRA’s new offering communications rules is February 4, 2013

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