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SEC Chairman Schapiro testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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August 4 2009

SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs concerning the regulation of systemic risk

Treasury Secretary Geithner testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on the administration’s plan for regulatory reform

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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August 4 2009

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner began his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee by stating that the U.S. financial system failed in its most basic responsibility to be stable and resilient enough to provide credit while protecting consumers and investors; the regulatory regime permitted an excessive build-up of leverage; and the system was too weak to withstand the failure of major financial institutions

Obama Administration proposes to create a Financial Services Oversight Council

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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August 4 2009

Continuing its push to establish new rules of the road and make the financial system fairer for consumers and investors, the Obama Administration delivered proposed legislation to Capitol Hill that would require strong, consolidated supervision and regulation for all financial firms

House releases schedule for financial regulatory reform

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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July 6 2009

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) announced the committee’s tentative schedule for the consideration of the Obama Administration’s plan for sweeping financial regulatory reform

White House proposes significant and comprehensive regulatory reform (HF, IA & MF)

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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July 6 2009

The Obama Administration introduced a white paper, Financial Regulatory Reform A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation (the White Paper), proposing significant and comprehensive regulatory reform in response to what the White Paper calls the “most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.”

A scorecard on the systemic risk regulator and federal insurance regulation

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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February 9 2009

As we move nearer to the second month of the new administration, the contours of the regulatory reform landscape are coming into sharper focus

Access to TARP program and Fed funding: insurance company strategies and implications

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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January 14 2009

Less than 2 weeks after the enactment of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), the Department of the Treasury began implementing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), albeit not in the form initially presented to Congress

Recent developments relating to insurance company participation in the Treasury’s TARP program

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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November 19 2008

In a major departure from the initial procedure established to distribute federal emergency money to U.S. financial institutions, Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr. announced on November 12th that the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) no longer intends to purchase troubled assets from financial institutions

Impact of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and related developments on insurance companies

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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October 7 2008

On October 3, 2008, following a week of intense negotiations, the House of Representatives gathered enough votes to finally approve landmark legislation, H.R. 1424, that includes the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008” (the “Stabilization Act” or “Act”

International revenue provisions tag along with Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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USA
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October 3 2008

On October 3, 2008, the President signed H.R. 1424 into law, which includes the Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008, the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, and the Tax Extenders and AMT Relief Act of 2008