The Standard Formula Podcast | Unpacking the IAIS’ Adoption of the Insurance Capital Standard
The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
The Standard Formula Podcast | Using an Internal Model to Calculate the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Bermuda Monetary Authority Proposes Enhancements to its Regulatory Regime
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part II - How Banks Think About Loan Defaults: Lessons for Borrowers in Troubled Times
CFTC Proposal Poses “Monumental” Challenge to FCMs
On April 9, the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, delivered a speech outlining the Trump Administration’s financial policy goals of empowering community banks, moving away from prioritizing large financial...more
Key Points - - New leadership at the financial regulatory agencies is likely to reverse some Biden-era rules and policy statements. - President-elect Trump’s picks are expected to make industry-friendly changes in a...more
We continue to gauge the potential for Congress to act on the administration’s housing finance plan and/or pass their own before adjourning for the year. When Congress returned from August recess, members faced an ambitious...more
Beyond the revamped Volcker Rule we discussed yesterday, Federal Reserve officials are “slowly, but steadily,” making a series of regulatory changes likely to weaken “capital requirements installed in the wake of the [2008...more
Washington saw a flurry of bipartisan activity over the last few weeks. Most notably, Republican and Democratic negotiators reached a long-awaited deal on sequestration budget caps. The compromise, announced on February 7 as...more
On May 24, 2018, President Trump signed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (the “Reform Act”). The bulk of reform in the Reform Act consists of the elimination of many technical and...more
"A Financial System that Creates Economic Opportunities: Banks and Credit Unions," a Report by the Department of the Treasury, identifies potential reforms that would promote the "Core Principles for Regulating the United...more
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that the market for initial public offerings of closed-end funds has fallen off dramatically over the last few years. Undoubtedly, the primary cause of this fall off has been the gaping...more
Unfortunately enough for Deutsche Bank, 2017 isn’t starting off much better than the previous year. The German banking giant has agreed to pay a $425 million fine to NY state authorities (and another $204 million to the UK’s...more