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Basel Capital Rules for Non-Basel II Organizations

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2007

The marathon-like process to make the existing Basel I risk-based capital framework more risk-sensitive is entering its gun lap

Misrepresentation In re Nosek

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2009

A federal bankruptcy court imposed sanctions against two mortgage companies and their attorneys for making misrepresentations as to which party was the true holder of the mortgage and note

Bank held liable for assurances of customer stability

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2009

According to an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, lenders should be mindful of the information they convey to current and former distressed clients, as well as to third parties that may deal with those distressed entities

Beware of liabilities lurking in testamentary and charitable trusts

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2009

In an era of unprecedented bank mergers and consolidations, many bank trust officers and wealth managers may find themselves undertaking responsibility for hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of trusts formerly administered by another institutional fiduciary or agent

Arbitration agreements that permit mortgage lenders to initiate foreclosure in court are enforceable in Pennsylvania

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2007

In a much-anticipated ruling on the applicability of the unconscionability doctrine to arbitration clauses in consumer loan contracts, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the anti-business, anti-arbitration approach taken by some of the lower courts in Pennsylvania

Basel II

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2007

On Friday, July 20, the four Federal Banking Agencies, FRB, OCC, OTS and FDIC ("Agencies"), announced that they had reached an agreement on how to implement the Basel II risk-based capital rules in the United States

Justice Department reaches agreement requiring divestitures in merger of First Busey Corporation and Main Street Trust

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2007

The Department of Justice has announced that First Busey Corporation and Main Street Trust Inc. have agreed to sell five branch offices with approximately $110 million in deposits in Champaign County, Ill., in order to resolve antitrust concerns about the companies' pending merger

Economic stimulus act imposes new executive compensation limits on all financial institutions participating in the TARP

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Act") rewrites Section 111 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the "EESA") and imposes several new or revised restrictions on the compensation arrangements of all financial institutions that have received or that will receive funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (the "TARP"

What to do when a lender defaults

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 1 2009

Lenders often express concern about potential defaults under their loan agreements but it’s usually default by the borrower that they’re concerned about, not default by the lenders

Man on a wire the sequel: FDIC balances need for additional capital against need for enhanced supervision

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 11 2009

Spurred on by a notable increase in bank failures this year (89 to date) and the resultant decrease in the size of the Federal Deposit Insurance Fund ("Fund") available to resolve new bank failures ($10.4 billion as of June 30, 2009), the FDIC, on Aug. 26, 2009a mere 48 days after coming out with its proposaladopted its final Statement of Policy on the Acquisition of Failed Depository Institutions ("SOP"

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