The Federal Reserve last week released the results of its 2018 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). We have analyzed the 2018 CCAR results, along with the Dodd-Frank Act St...
This visual memorandum describes the proposed amendments to the Volcker Rule regulations issued by the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC, SEC and CFTC, as well as key requests for comment about ...
In connection with Margaret E. Tahyar’s participation in the 2018 Prudential Regulation Conference to be hosted by SIFMA and The Clearing House in Washington, D.C. on June 19, 2018, we ...
This visual memorandum describes the key changes the Bipartisan Banking Act – which the House passed today – makes to the regulation of banking organizations. The Economic Growth, Reg...
CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo and CFTC Chief Economist Bruce Tuckman released a White Paper on April 26, 2018 that reflects the authors’ personal views on the need for swaps re...
Market participants are undertaking significant work to prepare for a transition away from LIBOR. This publication focuses on the legal framework and other issues related to fallback lang...
The Senate passed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S.2155) on March 14 by a filibuster-proof vote of 67 – 31. The Senate bill still must pass the Hous...
The Senate has passed the Bipartisan Banking Bill, which would raise the generally applicable statutory threshold for most enhanced prudential standards (EPS) from $50 billion to $250 bil...
For the first time, the CFTC has fined a company for poor cybersecurity practices that resulted in a third-party breach of the company’s information systems. This development is consis...
In his recent speech that we have covered in a series of blog posts, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles announced that he would like the Federal Reserve to achieve ...
