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Financial industry developments

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

On April 30, the FHFA issued its progress report on the steps being taken to establish a common securitization infrastructure for MBS. The FHFA is

International regulatory update 21 December 2012-4 January 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

Ireland commences EU Council Presidency PRIPS: ECON Committee reports on proposed Regulation on key information documents EMIR: Implementing

Dodd-Frank implementation: navigating the road ahead

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

Almost two-and-a-half years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, the various federal agencies charged with implementation have made measurable

Unintended consequences

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2012

On October 26th, Asset-Backed Alert discussed one of the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act's delegation of authority over derivatives to the CFTC: how the Federal Housing Finance Agency can avoid registration as a commodity pool operator as a result of its use of synthetic derivatives in its securitization of mortgages

Rating agency developments

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 13 2012

On August 9, Fitch updated its UK mortgage loan assumptions

Standardised approach for risk-weighted assets

  • Sidley Austin LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 3 2012

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation recently released three proposed rules and one final rule which would substantially revise the federal banking agencies' current capital rules

European financial stability measures: recent developments and U.S. exposure

  • Venable LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • August 9 2011

As recently as July 2011, a number of financial measures have been implemented by institutions and member states of the European Union (the “EU”) to address the current sovereign debt crisis and ensure financial stability in the EU

Dexia SA cites Deutsche Bank's internal MBS descriptions in suit over $1 billion in RMBS purchases

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 25 2011

On July 13, 2011, Dexia SA filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court against Deutsche Bank AG and several of its affiliates in connection with its purchase of more than $1 billion in RMBS between 2005 and 2007 from the Deutsche Bank defendants

Talk tax quarterly news

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 22 2011

Just as we were going to press bemoaning the impending January 1, 2013 effective date of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department announced an extension of the new provisions’ withholding and reporting requirements

Statement on legal entity identification for financial contracts

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2010

On November 24th, the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research published for comment a statement of policy regarding its preference to adopt through rulemaking a universal standard for identifying parties to financial contracts that is established and implemented by private industry and other relevant stakeholders through a consensus process