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In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal European, US and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructures, asset managers and corporates.

Six federal agencies jointly adopted final risk retention rules imposing 5% risk retention, or "skin-in-the-game," requirements for securitizations.

On December 21, 2015, the US Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued guidance for the benefit of its examiners, as well as banking institutions, intended to consolidate its capital planning expectations...

On September 26, 2016, the US Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued a proposed rule modifying the capital plan and stress testing rules for the 2017 test cycle.

On Friday, October 1, 2010, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) held its inaugural meeting at the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

At the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Symposium on Central Clearing, Board of Governors of the FRB Governor Jerome H. Powell detailed the risks faced by CCPs and their members.

The Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") adopted a rule that will (i) simplify the requirements for large banks subject to capital plan rules and (ii) implement a stress capital buffer requirement.

On July 9, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) published a report on the findings of surveys on supervisory issues related to LIBOR...

How are shifting capital and regulatory rules actually changing the way banks lend, borrowers negotiate, and lawyers structure deals?

In 2013, the Federal Reserve Board adopted rules to implement Basel III, a regulatory framework of reform measures for the banking industry issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).

Large insurers that operate across national borders should consider recent guidance on capital standards from the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), in particular on the kinds of instruments...

The NYDFS issued final supervisory guidance requiring New York-licensed or chartered banking institutions and financial services companies to establish and maintain a framework...

On April 12, 2011, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Farm Credit Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Agency jointly issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the "Proposed Rules") requiring institutions within their respective jurisdictions that are swap dealers, security-based swap dealers, major swap participants and security-based swap participants ("covered swap entities") to c

The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets has issued guidance in the form of Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) that we referenced in the client alert we issued earlier this evening.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has approved a package of amendments designed, among other things, to conform its deposit insurance regulation (Part 330) to recent temporary statutory increases in the basic deposit insurance coverage limit from $100,000 to $250,000.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"), Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") (together, the "Agencies") issued a proposed rule...

n a big win for creditors, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on May 29, 2012 that a secured creditor must be granted the right to credit bid up to the full amount of its claim where the debtor pursues a Chapter 11 plan that proposes to sell assets free and clear of liens.