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This blog post lays out the pros and cons that boards and senior management of regional and community banking organizations should consider in light of the Zions decision to shed its bank...
On the heels of the SEC staff rescinding the letters to proxy advisory firms, Commissioner Jackson decried the influence of “corporate lobbyists” on the issue in his statement.
It is ...
Financial services regulatory reform in 2018 continues to evolve. As we leave summer behind, here is the Fall Focus edition of our reference tool, which provides context and summarizes cu...
The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection kicked off yesterday. FTC Chairman Joseph Simons opened the hearings, noting two major challen...
Yesterday, Chairman Clayton released a statement that while the SEC staff might express their views in myriad ways, ultimately those staff statements are “nonbinding and create no enfor...
Yesterday Glass Lewis announced that its proxy voting reports will include guidance from the standards developed by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). SASB has ties wi...
The SEC issued a statement today announcing that its Division of Investment Management has rescinded the letters issued in 2004 to ISS and Egan-Jones, effective immediately.
The letters h...
After a several month lull that led some to question the SEC’s focus on crypto enforcement, this week saw a spate of enforcement activity involving crypto assets: several SEC enforcemen...
This memorandum provides an overview of the key changes regarding the format and content of the prospectus introduced by the New Prospectus Regulation as supplemented by the European Secu...
Guidance is guidance, and rules are rules. This straightforward statement was reiterated by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles and C...