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Out of the shadows and into the light

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • 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

Facility agreements in 2013: new laws, new terms?

  • Dentons
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  • Global, United Kingdom, USA
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  • November 27 2012

During 2012, many of those involved in drafting and negotiating facility agreements will have followed the progress of draft legislation, and other related developments, on FATCA, Basel III and LIBOR

Basel III’s new liquidity requirements will likely increase costs to banks with respect to unused lines of retail credit

  • Pepper Hamilton LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • November 9 2011

Basel III, a set of international banking reforms developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee), are expected to increase operational costs for banks due to heightened capital requirements and the imposition of formulaic liquidity requirements

Financial Stability Board identifies 29 global SIFIs and announces agreed policy measures

  • Dentons
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  • Global, USA
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  • November 7 2011

On November 4, 2011, the Financial Stability Board (the "FSB"), an international board with a mandate from the G-20 Leaders to "develop a policy framework to address the systemic and moral hazard risks associated with systemically important financial institutions" ("SIFIs"), identified the first 29 SIFI banking groups ("G-SIBs") to be listed as global SIFIs ("G-SIFIs") based upon their size, complexity and systemic interconnectedness

The United Nations, United States and European Union ease sanctions against Libya

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Libya, USA
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  • September 22 2011

In an effort to demonstrate international support for the Transitional National Council (TNC) in Libya, the United Nations, United States and European Union (EU) have taken steps to ease sweeping sanctions targeting the regime of Muammar Qadhafi, as well as agencies and instrumentalities of the former regime

Basel III Additional Tier 1 Going-Concern Capital and Tier 2 Capital

  • Sidley Austin LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 21 2010

As Warren Buffett quipped, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

Liquidity coverage ratio: new Basel measurement published

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • January 10 2013

On January 6, 2013, the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision ("GHOS"), which oversees the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS"

SEC provides guidance on disclosure of sovereign debt exposures

  • White & Case LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • January 12 2012

On January 6, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published guidance (CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 4) setting forth the views of the Staff of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance urging banks and other financial institutions to enhance disclosure of their exposure to debt instruments of European countries

U.S. and EU further relax sanctions against Libya

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Libya, USA
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  • September 26 2011

This memorandum briefly updates our September 22, 2011 summary of the easing of international economic sanctions by the United Nations, United States and European Union in support of the National Transitional Council of Libya

International regulatory update 7 - 11 January 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, France, Global, India, Poland, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 14 2013

EMIR: Extension of scrutiny period for Commission Delegated Regulations Basel III: Basel Committee releases revised version of Liquidity Coverage