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U.S. Secret Service issues Advisory on attacks targeting prepaid debit account payment processors

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2013

After observing a noticeable increase in sophisticated attacks targeting payment processors of prepaid debit accounts in which criminals are able to

The Seventh Circuit applies Required Records Doctrine to foreign bank account records, overriding claim of Fifth Amendment privilege

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 15 2012

In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Required Records Doctrine (RRD or the “doctrine”) compelled production of subpoenaed foreign bank account records, which were required to be maintained under the Bank Secrecy Act

Beal Bank assumes deposits of New South Federal Savings Bank

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2009

On Friday, the OTS closed New South Federal Savings Bank, headquartered in Irondale, Alabama, and the FDIC was named as receiver

Changes to Basel III as we ring in 2013

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2013

Over the weekend of January 5, 2013, the Basel Committee of the Bank for International Settlements issued its new plans for determining a bank's

Evolving DDOS attacks provide the driver for financial institutions to enhance response capabilities

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are not a new method employed by cyber criminals to inflict damage on victim entities’ networks. In fact

President issues two new Executive Orders tightening sanctions on Iran and Syria

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Iran, Syria, USA
  • -
  • May 3 2012

President Obama has issued two new Executive Orders that impose significant new extraterritorial sanctions on persons who do business with Iran or Syria

The TIA and REMIC securitizations: one year after Policemen’s Annuity

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

In April 2012, U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley concluded that mortgage-backed pass-through certificates issued pursuant to pooling and

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau defines “qualified mortgage” for residential loans what implications will this definition have for RMBS “put-back” litigation?

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "CFPB") has amended Regulation Z with respect to the Truth in Lending Act, which regulates a lender's

SIGTARP releases report criticizing Treasury’s implementation of the Home Affordable Modification Program

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2010

The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), which recently criticized Treasury in connection with its implementation of the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), today released a report, dated tomorrow, critically evaluating Treasury's implementation of the $75 billion Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP

OCC issues an alert on DDoS attacks

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 2 2013

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, recently released an alert to CEOs of