This Chapter discusses the expanded powers that a foreign bank or its parent (foreign banking organization or FBO) may exercise in the United States if it successfully elects to be treate...

Since Hong Kong’s statute-backed inside information disclosure regime saw the light of day on January 1 2013, the market has been trying to acclimatize to it. Senior managers of Hong Ko...

  Davis Polk partner Randall Guynn served as editor of Regulation of Foreign Banks & Affiliates in the United States (seventh edition), which discusses federal and state laws governing fo...

This year, we have seen executive compensation issues continue to dominate the global governance agenda, especially in Europe in the wake of the recent Swiss referendum, in which voters a...

If there is one thing that all sides of the “too-big-to-fail” debate can agree on, it is that reliving the financial crisis of 2008 without an effective means of resolving all financi...

Recently, much attention has been paid to a trend known a “futurization”—the recasting of economic arrangements previously transacted as “swaps” to trade as “futures” as a r...

  The resolution planning process in the United States is still evolving. A resolution plan is a plan for liquidating, reorganizing, recapitalizing or otherwise resolving a systemically i...

The US and global financial crisis in 2008 precipitated an avalanche of activity and changes in US banking regulation. In that year, the US Congress, the President and the regulators exer...