The SEC Corporate Finance staff has issued CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 4 to address its concerns about financial institutions’ disparate disclosures related to their direct and in...
As a result of the various capital reforms arising out of the recent financial crisis, there has been increasing interest by non-US banks to issue contingent convertible instruments (“C...
The following slides show the effective dates for various agency rulemakings required, and statutory amendments made, by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, ena...
With the President’s signature on July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“the Act”) is law of the land. The Act marks the greatest legislative...
This survey provides an overview of the various measures and programs for the financial sector which have been adopted or announced, or are currently being discussed, by the governments o...
After a year of proposed rulemaking, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently finalized the first amendments to its reserves and other reporting requirements for the oil a...
The Federal Reserve Board announced today the creation of a commercial paper funding facility to help provide liquidity to short-term funding markets. The facility enables the Federal Res...
