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Insurance safe harbor affords little certainty for non-US insurers

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

As market participants are aware, the definition of "swap" that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) added

IRS releases final regulations on the comparable effectiveness fee

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2012

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") recently released final regulations regarding the "comparable effectiveness fee" applicable to certain health

Federal rules effective dates

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2012

Joint Final Rule - Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Securities and Exchange Commission

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - December 3, 2012

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 3 2012

There must have been something in the turkey, because all of the optimism surrounding a positive resolution to the fiscal cliff seemed to have evaporated this week

Financial industry developments

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2012

On November 1, the FHFA announced that it was encouraged by Fannie Mae’s first Real Estate Owned pilot transactions and it made available additional details about the transactions

Amendment to definition of “qualified” derivatives counterparty under New York Insurance Law

  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2012

On August 17, 2012, Section 1410 of the New York Insurance Law, which regulates derivatives transactions for insurers domiciled, licensed or accredited as reinsurers in New York, was amended in order to modify the definition of the term “qualified counterparty.”

CFTC and SEC issue final rule defining certain swap products and triggering several Dodd-Frank obligations relating to swaps

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 19 2012

On July 10, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) approved its joint final rules with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC, and together with the CFTC, the Commissions) defining the products that are at the heart of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) namely, swaps and security-based swaps (the Product Definitions Rule

Derivatives clearing required by Dodd-Frank will apply to the insurance industry

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 18 2012

Among the far-reaching reforms included in the Dodd-Frank Act (the “DFA”) was a comprehensive new regulatory framework for derivatives

Not all insurance products find safe harbor under final swap definition rules

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2012

In July 2012, the SEC and CFTC (the Commissions) approved long-awaited joint rules and interpretations concerning certain key definitions, including “swap” and “security-based swap” (collectively Swaps

Mutual funds and insurance companies eye major swap participant definition

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2012

In April, the CFTC and SEC (the Commissions) finalized rules defining what swap or security-based swap activities will cause a person or company to be a major swap participant or a swap dealer under Dodd-Frank

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