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Federal Reserve Board issues final retail foreign exchange transactions rule

  • BuckleySandler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 15 2013

On April 9, the Federal Reserve Board published a final rule that allows supervised entities to engage in off-exchange foreign currency transactions

The Group of Thirty publishes report outlining a framework for financial stability

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2009

Yesterday, the Group of Thirty (G30), a private, nonprofit, international body that aims for further understanding of international economic and financial issues, released a report entitled “Financial Reform: A Framework for Financial Stability."

Federal Reserve approves application related to energy management and tolling

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2008

On March 27, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Federal Reserve) announced its approval of an application by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (Royal Bank) to engage in physical commodity trading and to provide energy management services

EU-US Coalition on Financial Regulation - response to CESR call for evidence on mutual recognition of non-EU jurisdictions

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

The EU-US Coalition on Financial Regulation (the Coalition) is an industry-led initiative created in 2005 to push for mutual regulatory recognition between EU member states and the US, as well as targeted rule convergence

Market participants issue new commitments and move closer to reducing systemic risk and increasing efficiency in the OTC derivatives market

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • June 3 2009

Yesterday, key over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market participants and industry associations, including the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), the Managed Funds Association and the Asset Management Group of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, in an effort to "significantly reduce systemic risk and increase transparency,” submitted a letter to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and other banking regulators

Treasury releases blueprint for stronger regulatory structure

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2008

On March 31, the U.S. Treasury released its “Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure.”

Important clarification of the swaps push-out effective date: federal banking agencies clarify that the effective date of the swaps push-out provision is July 16, 2013

  • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

Today the federal banking agencies jointly issued guidance clarifying that the effective date of Section 716 (the swaps push-out provision) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) is July 16, 2013

A regulatory Mulligan for the 21st century

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2008

By now, almost everyone can agree that current regulatory regimes (or the implementation thereof) have not adequately addressed new financial products and practices that have developed in the past few years

Financial services regulatory reform - issues to watch

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 7 2009

After months of Congressional hearings, principally in the House of Representatives, financial services regulatory reform is likely to be taken up, at least by the House, this year

Application of the correspondent account rule to OTC executing dealers

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 7 2007

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued interpretive guidance to clarify the due diligence obligations of executing dealers in over-the-counter foreign exchange and derivatives markets pursuant to prime brokerage arrangements under the correspondent account provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act