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Financial services regulation - changing of the guard

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 2 2013

This briefing provides an overview of the regulatory structure and the objectives, powers and approach of the regulators of the UK financial services

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for financial institutions

  • Quarles & Brady LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2010

On July 15, 2010, the United States Senate passed the House-approved Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act"), which was signed by President Obama on July 21, 2010

Additional states enact NAIC model qualified financial contracts law

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 29 2011

Several states have recently added provisions to their insurance rehabilitation and liquidation acts which address the rights of parties to certain derivatives transactions with an insurance company in the event that an order of rehabilitation or liquidation is entered against the insurer

FSA may publish guidance on admissibility of "quasi-derivatives"

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2008

The FSA’s recent decision to consider clarifying how insurance asset admissibility rules apply to “quasi-derivatives” is helpful

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - May 29, 2012

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2012

With the House of Representatives in Recess this past week all action was found in the Senate where the Banking Committee heard from emboldened regulators seeking to capitalize on the events of the JP Morgan trading loss as justification for tougher regulation and strong implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, in addition to considering legislation to help spur refinancing and aid the Housing market

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - 14 May 2012

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2012

What was heading to be a rather routine week of hearings and the continued implementation of Dodd-Frank was shaken by the end of the week news that JP Morgan had a $2 billion dollar trading lost

The insurance industry and EMIR: the race towards EU regulation of OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories is on

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 30 2012

The race towards a pan-European regulation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories is on, with the European Parliament set to meet on 29 March 2012 to vote on the final text of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR

Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filings: issues for replacement swap counterparties and their municipal clients

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2008

Voluntary petitions for protection under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the “Code”) were filed on September 15, 2008 by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (“Holdings”), on October 3, 2008 by Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc. (“LBSF”), and on October 5, 2008 by Lehman Brothers Financial Products Inc. (“LBFP”) and Lehman Brothers Derivative Products Inc

Designation of systemically important nonbank financial institutions under the Dodd-Frank Act

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 10 2011

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”) has published a proposed rule and interpretive guidance (together, the “Rule”) that detail the criteria and process the FSOC would use to designate nonbank financial companies as systemically important pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act

CFTC and SEC issue final rule defining certain swap products and triggering several Dodd-Frank obligations relating to swaps

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 19 2012

On July 10, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) approved its joint final rules with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC, and together with the CFTC, the Commissions) defining the products that are at the heart of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) namely, swaps and security-based swaps (the Product Definitions Rule

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