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In recent fiscal cliff discussions, President Obama has floated the idea of a retroactive 28% cap on municipal bonds.

The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department scheduled a public hearing to discuss proposed regulations under section 385 of the Internal Revenue Code.

The broad scope of the Proposed Regulations also would impact common decisions primarily motivated by non-tax concerns, such as which company in an expanded group will borrow from third parties.

On June 23, 2015, the SEC announced that it had reached settlement agreements with 36 municipal underwriting firms in its first round of settlements under this initiative.

Beginning January 1, 2022, pursuant to California's new Debt Collection Licensing Act (DCLA), all consumer debt collectors who are collecting on their own account or the account of others...

On December 3, the CFPB filed a proposed settlement to resolve a long running lawsuit against a student loan relief company and its owner (collectively, the "Defendants").

The CFPB analyzed consumer complaints concerning private or federal student loans, including those related to debt collection and COVID-19.

Two debt collectors and their respective companies agreed to settle New York State Attorney General ("AG") charges of illegal and deceptive practices.

Following the settlement, Gould's counsel filed a motion for attorneys' fees.

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB 2017-01) on Friday, March 10, 2017 to address near-term compliance concerns relating to a proposed 60-day delay of the Fiduciary Rule.

In a recent article, the FT notes that "US companies have been piling into the market for convertible bonds as they search for ways to keep interest costs down...

On June 24, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to evaluate how Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) loans may affect FHA-insured mortgage underwriting.

Several trade associations requested that the SEC extend the comment period for its proposed rules on capital, margin and segregation requirements for security-based swaps.

On October 1, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) issued PS9/14 and the FCA published FG14/8 setting out their final policies on implementing the Financial Policy Committee’s (FPC) recommendation on loan to income (LTI) ratios in mortgage lending.

On June 6, 2012, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Chairwoman Mary Landrieu, backed by the committee’s ranking member Olympia Snowe, published the Expanding Access to Capital for Entrepreneurial Leaders (EXCEL) Act.

On July 26, 2013, the French government filed an amicus curiae brief supporting Argentina’s petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on October 26, 2012.

The 2025 Report on International Asset Recovery for PRC Financial Creditors is an analysis of recovery routes available to onshore creditors with chapter two co-written by Anthony Ellwood-Russell and Marijn Flinterman.