On December 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a series of potentially far-reaching changes to the regulation of the security-based swap (SBS) markets. Among other changes, the proposed rules would...more
On June 25, 2020, the Federal Reserve, Farm Credit Administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “Agencies”) finalized amendments to...more
As a further step towards the implementation of its security-based swap regime, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted a number of long-awaited capital, margin and segregation requirements for security-based...more
11/14/2019
/ Broker-Dealer ,
Capital Requirements ,
CFTC ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Final Rules ,
Margin Requirements ,
MSBSPs ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Security-Based Swaps ,
Segregation Requirements ,
Swap Dealers
Toward the end of 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed significant revisions to the framework governing swap trading through swap execution facilities (SEFs) and designated contract markets (DCMs)....more
2/6/2019
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Comment Period ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Designated Contract Markets (DCMs) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Mandatory Clearing Requirements ,
Market Participants ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Registration Requirement ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
SEFs ,
Swap Clearing ,
Swaps
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
6/4/2018
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Banking Sector ,
Corporate Governance ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
MiFID II ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
Prudential Standards ,
Securities ,
UK
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board and other federal regulatory agencies (the “Agencies”) responsible for implementing the Volcker Rule agreed to seek public comment on proposed changes (the “Proposed Rule”) to the...more
On April 26, 2018, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo and Chief Economist Bruce Tuckman published a white paper on potential reforms to the CFTC’s swaps trading rules....more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
2/15/2018
/ Benchmarks ,
Cease and Desist Orders ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Entrepreneurs ,
EU ,
EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU MAR) ,
Stress Tests ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
Venture Capital ,
Wells Fargo
On February 9, 2018, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that treating managers of open-market CLOs as “securitizers” subject to the risk retention rules exceeded the statutory authority to promulgate rules to implement the risk...more
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), signed into law on July 21, 2010, was the largest overhaul of the U.S. derivatives market in history. While there are still a few parts of Dodd-Frank...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and...more
On June 8, 2017, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, or CHOICE Act 2.0, which scales back or eliminates many of the post-crisis financial reforms that were...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and...more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
12/21/2016
/ Banking Sector ,
Central Counterparties ,
Credit Rating Agencies ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EU ,
FinTech ,
Foreign Banks ,
Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) ,
Liquidity ,
Payment Services Directive ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Stress Tests ,
Systemic Risk Buffer ,
UK ,
Volcker Rule
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump wavered between populist and business-friendly policies and expressed seemingly conflicting plans for Wall Street—on the one hand advocating for less regulation with a repeal of the...more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
6/23/2016
/ Annual Reports ,
Bank Holding Company ,
Capital Markets Union ,
Capital Requirements ,
Cybersecurity ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EU ,
EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU MAR) ,
Long-Term Investment Funds ,
No-Action Relief ,
UK
On April 4, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced the issuance of a whistleblower award of more than $10 million for original information that it said led to a major enforcement action over...more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
3/25/2016
/ Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) ,
Central Counterparties ,
Cuba ,
Deposit Insurance ,
Derivatives Clearing Organizations ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EU ,
Foreign Exchanges ,
Goldman Sachs ,
Insider Trading ,
Payment Systems ,
Sanctions ,
UK ,
Volcker Rule
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
2/8/2016
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Capital Requirements ,
Cybersecurity ,
Deposit Insurance ,
Dodd-Frank ,
FDIC ,
Market Abuse ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
Mexico ,
Prudential Standards ,
Rating Agencies ,
Regulation Technical Standards (RTS) ,
SEFs ,
South Africa
Six federal agencies have finalized long-anticipated joint rules imposing risk retention, or “skin-in-the-game,” requirements for securitizations. The new rules, when they become effective over the next two years, will impose...more
10/24/2014
/ Derivatives ,
Dodd-Frank ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
FHFA ,
Higher-Risk Securitizations ,
HUD ,
New Regulations ,
OCC ,
Regulation AB ,
Risk Retention ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Volcker Rule
The regulation that will implement the Volcker Rule was finally issued on December 10, 2013. Major financial institutions around the world will have to review a host of activities and investments in order to comply with the...more
On December 10 2013, the final regulation implementing the Volcker Rule was adopted by the five US federal bank regulatory agencies. This comes over two years after the publication of the proposed regulation. The text below...more
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday, June 5, issued an interpretation of the so-called “swaps push-out” section of the Dodd-Frank Act that corrects a drafting error that virtually everyone agrees needed to be fixed. The Federal...more
On June 4, 2013, the Division of Clearing and Risk (the “Division”) of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) granted limited no-action relief from the mandatory clearing requirement for swaps entered into...more