The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act of 2025 (the “GENIUS Act” and the “Act”) establishes a regulatory infrastructure for defining, managing, custodying and issuing a specific kind of...more
6/24/2025
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On December 16, 2022, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) adopted a final rule (the “Final Rule”) to implement the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “LIBOR Act”). The Final Rule follows...more
On December 16, 2022, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) adopted a final rule (the “Final Rule”) to implement the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “LIBOR Act”). The Final Rule follows...more
On November 23, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) released its further consultation to require the administrator of LIBOR to publish a synthetic version of 1-, 3-, and 6-month U.S. dollar LIBOR settings for a...more
12/5/2022
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On July 19, the Federal Reserve issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPR”) that would implement the Federal LIBOR Act. The NPR focuses primarily on identifying the particular version of SOFR that will apply to legacy...more
7/22/2022
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Federal legislation addressing the transition of legacy LIBOR contracts took a big step forward when it was included in the Omnibus bill passed late last night by the House of Representatives.
The bill would provide legal...more
On February 3, 2017, President Trump signed two executive actions intended to provide a framework for scaling back the Dodd-Frank Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) and rescinding or revising the Department of Labor’s “fiduciary rule.”...more
2/6/2017
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