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The Financial Stability Oversight Council’s 2013 annual report: increasing exchange-traded product activity

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

In its 2013 Annual Report, the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council (the "FSOC") summarized, as part of its review of investment funds

Key issues for Yankee CDs

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

Yankee CDs are certificates of deposit issued by U.S. branches of non-U.S. banks. Some Yankee CDs are issued by a federally licensed branch that is

The SEC and FINRA: protect your elders

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

In April 2013, the SEC, in association with FINRA, held a Compliance Outreach Program for broker-dealers. The program included a panel that addressed

Due diligence procedures for structured note distributors

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

Sections 11 and 12 are the main liability provisions under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Section 11 covers

SEC discusses estimated value at Structured Products conference

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

On May 2, 2013, Amy Starr, Chief of the SEC's Office of Capital Markets Trends, spoke by teleconference at Structured Products magazine's Americas

FINRA’s Ketchum discusses structured products

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

On April 9, 2013, Richard Ketchum, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FINRA, delivered a speech regarding the National Compliance Outreach

Update regarding TRACE Rule 144A securities

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

In April 2013, FINRA's Board of Governors approved a proposal to publicly disseminate 144A transactions in TRACE-eligible securities for those asset

FINRA issues guidance on backtested performance data

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

Issuers of structured products that reference indices with limited histories often present in their offering documents hypothetical historical data

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

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