On July 28, 2016, The Clearing House issued a white paper, The Custody Services of Banks, which describes the role of bank-chartered custodians.  The paper discusses the services provided...

This textbook aims to completely revamp the law school curriculum for financial regulation and policy by teaching students the basics of regulatory framework for all parts of the financia...

This article first appeared in Compliance Reporter. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently finalized its business conduct requirements for security-based swap dealers (SBSDs).

Much ink has been spilled over the last several years about the ongoing convergence of the U.S. institutional Term Loan B market with the high-yield bond market, including by our firm. Th...

This article first appeared in Compliance Reporter. The Securities and Exchange Commission is slowly finalizing its rules under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act for the registration and re...

A team of attorneys from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP presented the ABA’s January Antritrust Update for In-House Counsel. The following article summarizes one of the recent developments di...

Whilst shareholder activism is well established in the US, over the past 12 months the influence of shareholders has continued to be felt around the world as institutional investors have ...

A number of changes to the Prospectus Directive regime regarding the approval and publication of prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements and also amending the Prospectus Regulati...

In a piece that appeared in the Financial Times’ FT Trading Room on January 8, 2016, Annette Nazareth and Gabriel Rosenberg of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group make their reg...