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CFPB moves quickly to launch nonbank supervision program

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2012

Despite Republican efforts to prevent such a move, on January 4, 2012, President Obama used a recess appointment to install Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“Bureau”

In watershed decision, federal court dismisses shareholder class action against directors and officers of failed bank

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2011

The road to recovery for shareholders of failed banks and other companies that lost value in the wake of the Great Recession just got a lot tougher

President’s Working Group on Financial Markets recommends money market fund reform

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 22 2010

Yesterday, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) released a report describing a number of proposed money market fund (MMF) reforms

AIG and U.S. Treasury announces exit plan from AIG investment

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2010

Today, the U.S. Treasury Department and American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced that they had reached an agreement-in-principle with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and the trustees of the AIG Credit Facility Trust regarding the repayment by AIG of funds made available to it by U.S. taxpayers

House Financial Services Committee holds hearing on executive compensation oversight in the wake of Dodd-Frank

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 26 2010

On Friday, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled "Executive Compensation Oversight after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act"

Financial Stability Oversight Council to hold first meeting on October 1

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2010

Today, Treasury Secretary Geithner, who serves as chairperson to the Financial Stability Oversight Council, announced that the Council will hold its first meeting on October 1, 2010

FSA and FINRA sign memorandum of understanding

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • September 20 2010

Today, the U.K. Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support more robust cooperation between the two regulators

Elizabeth Warren named Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection; Treasury sets CFPB designated transfer date

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 17 2010

Today, President Obama announced the appointment of Elizabeth Warren, currently Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University and Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB

Treasury releases completed transactions report, offers warrant positions

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 15 2010

On Tuesday, Treasury released its most current transactions report for the period ended September 10, 2010

SEC warns credit agencies about deceptive ratings conduct and its expanded jurisdiction under the Dodd-Frank Act

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 2 2010

Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a Report of Investigation resulting from an inquiry by the SEC Enforcement Division into whether Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) violated federal securities laws by concealing a coding error in a new ratings model