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Treasury and other financial regulators issue financial sector self-assessment reviews to IMF

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

Today, the U.S. Treasury and various other U.S. financial system supervisors and regulators, including the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Thrift Supervision, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and National Association of Insurance Commissioners, submitted financial sector self-assessment reviews for banking, securities, insurance, and payment systems to the International Monetary Fund (IMF

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."

Treasury Market Practices Group releases fails charge trading practice to address excessive settlement fails in U.S. Treasuries

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

The Treasury Markets Practices Group (TMPG), comprised of leading sell-side and buy-side participants in the U.S. Treasury market and sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), yesterday published the U.S. Treasury Securities Fails Charge Trading Practice (the “Trading Practice”), as part of TMPG’s measures to remediate widespread settlement fails in the Treasury market

Senate Banking Committee holds hearing on Madoff Ponzi scheme and the need for regulatory reform

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2009

Today, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “Madoff Investment Securities Fraud: Regulatory and Oversight Concerns and the Need for Reform."

The SEC to focus on issues concerning the subprime debt industry in 2008

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 3 2008

The Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently unveiled the issues that will be a priority for the agency during the upcoming year

Senate banking committee holds hearing on SEC enforcement responsibilities

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2009

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled "Strengthening the SEC’s Vital Enforcement Responsibilities."

Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley price public offerings

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2009

Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo wasted no time in seeking to raise additional capital in the wake of the Federal Reserve's publication last evening of the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) results for them and 17 other U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs

Secretary Geithner testifies before House Financial Services Committee on Administration's proposals for financial regulatory reform

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 23 2009

Today, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the Obama Administration's proposals for financial regulatory reform

Bank of America announces exchange offer for certain series of preferred stock

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2009

Today, Bank of America Corporation announced that it is commencing an offer to exchange up to 200 million shares of newly-issued common stock for outstanding depositary shares of certain series of its preferred stock at an exchange ratio that represents a discount ($3.01 billion) to the applicable liquidation preference ($13.26 billion) of the preferred depositary shares

Treasury announces initial closings of public-private investment funds

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 1 2009

The U.S. Treasury Department announced yesterday that two of the fund managers selected to participate in Treasury’s Legacy Securities program had raised the requisite $500 million of private capital in order to obtain the matching debt and equity funds from Treasury to fund their respective public-private investment funds (PPIFs

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