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Regulators aim to finalize Volcker rule by year’s end
- Sedgwick LLP
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
According to the FDIC, the Volcker rule, named for former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, is on track to be completed by year’s end
Peregrine CEO signs plea agreement to fraud and embezzlement scheme
- Sedgwick LLP
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
Federal prosecutors report that they have reached a plea agreement with Russell Wasendorf, Sr., the head of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc., in which he admitted to orchestrating a $200 million embezzlement scheme
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces stiff opposition from Republican state AGs
- Sedgwick LLP
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
As part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created in order to consolidate federal financial consumer protection into one agency
Congress grants NY fed additional time to provide Libor documents
- Sedgwick LLP
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has received some relief from Congress’s prior requests that it produce internal communications related to possible Libor manipulation, granting the New York Fed additional time to respond
Second Circuit issues pro-plaintiff standing decision in MBSs cases
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
On September 6, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a plaintiff had standing to assert claims not only against originators of offering certificates in which the plaintiff specifically invested, but could also proceed with claims on behalf of purchasers of certificates backed by mortgages originated by the same lenders
Lawsuit filed against Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and UBS alleging fraudulent misrepresentations related to mortgage-backed securities
- Sedgwick LLP
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
On September 5, 2012, three separate lawsuits were filed in New York state court against Citigroup, Inc., Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and UBS AG alleging both fraud and negligent misrepresentation in connection with the banks’ sales of certain residential mortgage-backed securities
FDIC seeks extensive damages from big banks for losses of failed guaranty bank
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- USA
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- September 28 2012
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has sued Goldman Sachs & Co. and other big banks in a Texas state court, seeking $2.1 billion in damages for the banks’ alleged role in convincing the now-defunct Guaranty Bank to purchase mortgage-backed securities (MBS
Voluntary parting and conversion exclusions bar coverage for aircraft theft and subsequent confiscation does not revive coverage
- Sedgwick LLP
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- USA
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- September 20 2012
In St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. v. Luke Ready Air, LLC, No. 9:11-cv-80121, 2012 WL 3126356 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2012), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida held that an aircraft insurance policy’s “conversion” exclusion barred coverage for the disappearance of the insured’s aircraft in Mexico, despite the insured’s attempts to evade the exclusion by differentiating between a “theft” and a “conversion.”
Swiss banks challenge Picard’s claims
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- USA
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- June 29 2012
Lombard Odier and Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), two Swiss banks targeted in Irving Picard’s recent lawsuits filed on June 6, 2012, are contesting Picard’s legal claims
SEC readies first payouts under Dodd-Frank whistleblower program
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- USA
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- June 29 2012
Under the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, a new process was put in place that allows whistleblowers who report corporate wrongdoing to receive anywhere from 10 percent to 30 percent of any fine levied against the corporation
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