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After a strong performance in the midterm election, the Republicans now control both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Insurance holding companies should be closely following the accelerating efforts by state insurance regulators to impose oversight over group (in addition to legal entity) financial resources.

In remarks before the "Derivatives Trading Forum: Trading ESG Products," ISDA Chief Executive Scott O'Malia urged regulatory action to address Basel III market risk rules for carbon certificates.

A new era at the SEC officially began last week when Jay Clayton was sworn in as the 32nd Chairman of the SEC.

The announcement last week by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and other agencies that they will provide mortgage loan forbearance arrangements for up to 6 months,...

The OCC issued an interpretive letter (" Letter 1131") in which it concluded that a national bank (the "Bank") could meet its obligation to dispose of a parcel of DPC real property (the "DPC Property"), i.e., a property acquired by the Bank in connection with a debt previously contracted, by transferring the DPC Property to a limited partnership wholly-owned by the Bank’s Community Development Corporation ("CDC") subsidiary (the "CDC Subsidiary").

An OFR working paper examined how risk-taking in the repurchase agreement market changed after the introduction of the Basel III supplementary leverage ratio ("SLR") regulation for banks.

The North American automotive supply industry convened in suburban Detroit on November 13th at The Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) 21st Annual Conference under the theme: "...

In a series of announcements, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the federal banking agencies have offered significant guidance on the operation of the Capital Assistance Program (“CAP”), one of the principal elements of the Financial Stability Plan announced on February 10, 2009.

The Cabinet Regulatory Tracker is a list of effective dates and comment deadlines.

Acting in response to growing evidence that adequate empirical data for estimating the expected term of stock options would not be timely available for valuation purposes, the Securities & Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant of Corporation Finance has extended beyond year-end the benefit of its previously announced simplified method for estimating the term of certain options.

Last week was the most dramatic week in financial markets since the Great Depression. Within a span of seven days, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America agreed to acquire Merrill Lynch, the federal government loaned US$85 billion to AIG to prevent its collapse, and the Secretary of the Treasury sought unprecedented and nearly limitless authority from the Congress to purchase US$700 billion of distressed mortgage-related assets from financial institutions.

Professor's Pirrong's financial network models demonstrate how complexity may thwart the most well-intentioned regulatory plan.

When the 112th Congress convenes in January, banking issues will remain on the front-burner.

On 31 March 2025 the Joint Committee (the "JC") of the European Supervisory Authorities (the "ESAs") released a report (the "JC Report") on the functioning of the European Securitisation Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/2402) (the "EUSR").

The January 2012 failures of Tennessee Commerce Bank and BankEast, the first bank failures in the state in a decade, demonstrate that banks in Tennessee are not immune to the conditions that have caused the failure of over 420 banks in the United States since 2008.

On March 26, 2009 the U.S. Department of the Treasury outlined its framework for financial regulatory reform in a release and through Secretary of Treasury Geithner’s testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services.

On February 4, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") announced enhanced conditions on executive compensation for executives of financial institutions that (i) receive "exceptional financial recovery assistance" or (ii) participate in a "generally available capital access program" that Treasury announces in the future.