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Financial services legislative and regulatory update
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- August 5 2011
Although an 11th-hour agreement on the debt ceiling by the congressional leadership was reached, and the US was not forced to default, the collateral damage of this debate was evident late Friday evening when Standard & Poor‘s announced that it was downgrading the US credit rating from AAA to AA
Financial services legislative and regulatory review - July 25, 2011
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- July 25 2011
Once again, the nation‘s and the worlds attention was fixated on Washington this past week, as both parties continued to play an incredible game of chicken with the debt ceiling issue
Financial services legislative and regulatory update - July 22 2011
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- July 22 2011
With less than two weeks to go before the U.S. debt ceiling is penetrated, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) abruptly announced that he was pulling out of his seemingly positive negotiations with President Obama
Financial services legislative and regulatory update - July 15 2011
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- July 15 2011
It was another week of alphabet soup, ending with the news that Congress is going to take up the CCB to appease conservatives who see a vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as the only way to deal with impending crack in the debt ceiling, which is now less than two weeks away
Financial services legislative and regulatory update - July 8 2011
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- July 8 2011
It was all debt ceiling again this week, and as of this past Friday there are 25 days until the August 2nd default date, but only 14 days until the July 22nd deadline imposed by the President to give Congress enough time to draft the legislation
Financial services - legislative and regulatory
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- July 1 2011
As the clock continues to tick down on the U.S.‘s deadline for breaching its debt ceiling, President Obama stepped into the fray by publicly reprimanding Republicans for their lack of action on the issue
Financial services regulatory reform update - June 24, 2011
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- June 24 2011
After a couple of relatively light weeks, driven in large part by the fact that it has seemed like the House and the Senate have rarely been in session at the same time during the past month, this past week saw an explosion of activity
Financial services regulatory reform update - June 17, 2011
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- June 17 2011
As the August 2nd deadline to increase the debt limit draws nearer, the “Biden group,” has redoubled its efforts
Agencies extend ABS risk retention proposal comment period
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- June 10 2011
On Tuesday, the SEC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that they were extending the comment period on a proposed rule pertaining to asset-backed securities (ABS) risk retention requirements
Frank issues letter to clarify intent on broker-dealer fiduciary standards
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- June 10 2011
In a letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) stressed that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was not designed to “encourage” the SEC to extend the 1940 Investment Advisors Act fiduciary standard to broker-dealers
