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EITF and the Federal Funds rate

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2013

In a January 2013 meeting, FASB's Emerging Issues Task Force (the "EITF") voted in favor of adding the Federal Funds rate as a benchmark rate under

FINRA notice regarding complex products

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2012

FINRA recently released Regulatory Notice 12-03 titled “Complex Products: Heightened Supervision of Complex Products.”

Taxation of financial instruments

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 15 2011

On December 7, 2011, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held a joint hearing on the taxation of financial instruments

ISDASIFMA challenge position limits

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 15 2011

On December 2, 2011, ISDA and SIFMA jointly filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the CFTC and a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the position limit rules

Securities and Exchange Commission tackles fund use of derivatives

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 5 2011

On August 31, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a Concept Release and requested comments on issues concerning the use of derivatives by investment companies, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds and business development companies

RIC commodity ruling update

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 2 2011

We learned last week that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has imposed an informal moratorium on private letter rulings for regulated investment companies (“RICs”) that invest in commodities through foreign subsidiaries or structured notes, presumably because the government is reconsidering the tax issues involved

FINRA issues notice to members re securities linked to commodity futures

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2010

As part of FINRA's continuing focus on member firms' communications with retail investors about more complex structured products and structures, it recently released regulatory notice 10-512 reminding firms of their sales practice obligations for commodity futures-linked securities

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