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GAO publishes evaluation report on Treasury's decision making process on TALF

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 5 2010

Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report entitled Troubled Asset Relief Program: Treasury Needs to Strengthen Its Decision-Making Process on the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

Massachusetts Attorney General and Goldman Sachs settle subprime investigation

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 12 2009

Yesterday, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office announced that it and Goldman Sachs & Company have entered into a settlement agreement relating to the Attorney General’s investigation of subprime lending and securitization markets, including the role of investment banks in the origination and securitization of subprime loans in Massachusetts

Obama Administration publishes proposed regulatory overhaul

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2009

In a speech this afternoon, President Obama unveiled his Administration’s proposal for reforms across the broad universe of financial regulatory agencies

Exemption to Section 23A limitations expires in light of improved tri-party repo market

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 30 2009

Today, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) announced that the temporary exemption to the limitations in Section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act, instituted last September 2008 in the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and as a response to the general financial crisis, will expire today as scheduled

Treasury and FDIC launch Public Private Partnership Investment Program to deal with bank legacy assets

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2009

Yesterday, the U.S. Treasury and FDIC jointly launched the Public Private Investment Program, designed to “facilitate price discovery” and “draw new private capital into the market” in an effort to “improve the health of financial institutions” currently burdened by legacy loans and securities