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The Obama Administration is currently on the legislative leg of the regulatory reform marathon that began earlier this year with the release of its Rules of the Road and continued with it...
On May 15, 2009, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey introduced H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security A...
On July 10, 2009, the Treasury Department released the proposed Investor Protection Act of 2009 (the “Act”), which would, if enacted, implement portions of the financial reform propos...
Following a meeting of the Board of Directors of the FDIC on Thursday, July 2, 2009, the FDIC issued a Proposed Statement of Policy on Qualifications for Failed Bank Acquisitions for publ...
The Obama Administration’s draft legislation for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 was sent to the Congress on June 30, 2009. The proposed legislation would make swee...
The Obama Administration’s White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform is just the beginning of what is likely to be a legislative, regulatory and ideological marathon, despite the Admin...
The SEC’s proposed proxy access rules were released on June 10. Comments are due by August 17. The SEC’s apparent goal is to adopt some form of proxy access rule in time for the 2010 ...
This newsflash summarizes the key proposals in the Obama Administration’s White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform We will post a full memorandum with analysis and commentary in the c...
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (“NCOIL”) is drafting model legislation (the “Model Bill”) that would subject credit default swaps (“CDS”) to a state regulato...
On May 15, 2009, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey introduced H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security A...