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On June 3, the Federal Reserve Board released an ANPR and began soliciting comments for the conceptual framework for capital standards that it will use when overseeing the two types of insurers for which it has supervisory authority.

On June 3, amendments to New York insurance regulations, available here, became effective that will permit the New York Superintendent of Financial Services to act as group-wide supervisor of internationally active...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the copyright owner, not the Internet service provider or Internet host, bears the burden of policing copyrighted content on video-hosting websites: the copyright holder must identify specific infringing materials before liability can be shifted to the Internet service provider or host under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Recently the Supreme Court granted certiorari in one case of interest to the business community. Barring extensions, amicus briefs in support of the petitioner will be due on July 28, 2005, and amicus briefs in support of the respondent will be due on September 1, 2005.

In the absence of congressional action, many tax laws affecting municipal bonds will change significantly at the end of this year.

European Union legislative institutions agreed to various compromises in the form of amendments to proposed legislation concerning the European securitization framework.

On November 20, 2017, the European Banking Authority published final Guidelines on the application of the Internal Ratings-Based approach, in particular, the estimation of risk parameters for non-defaulted exposures, namely of the probability of default (PD) and the loss given default (LGD), and on the treatment of defaulted assets.

In October 2023, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a report addressing the need for a comprehensive prudential framework that adequately considers emerging environmental and social risks.

Fair lending compliance and community benefit plans are increasingly important factors in the merger and acquisition (M&A) approval process.

In this Legal Update, we explore a number of these deviations and some of their implications for US banking organizations and the US financial markets.

As we have predicted, the continuing efforts of private equity firms to create structures that are consistent with bank control and holding company rules and that can be used to acquire financial institutions, and the willingness of banking regulators to accommodate private investors and put fresh capital to work in the banking business,

Banking organizations should take note that last week the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released proposed revisions to its core principles for effective banking supervision...

Join us for the latest episode of Financial Services Focus for a discussion of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's recent Humphrey-Hawkins testimony ..

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 managers and corporates.

In this episode, Matt Bisanz interviews Bill Hulse, a senior vice-president at the US Chamber of Commerce's Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness.

Matt Bisanz interviews Georges Duponcheele of MunichRe and William Perraudin of Risk Control Ltd. about their work in developing approaches to securitization capital requirements.

On December 21, President Bush signed into law the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act (H.R. 4440), which provides $8 billion in hurricane reconstruction and relief tax breaks for businesses and individuals. The new law also retroactively amended and clarified various S Corporation provisions contained in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.

On October 11, 2011, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the "Council") released a second notice of proposed rulemaking and interpretive guidance regarding the process by which the Council will determine, with respect to each "nonbank financial company," whether such company could pose a threat to U.S. financial stability and therefore should be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the "Board") and be subject to prudential standards.