Davis Polk Insights on Financial Regulation
Our visual memorandum here describes the key changes the Bipartisan Banking Act makes to the regulation of banking organizations. It is color coded for those who want to look only at the changes that affect their own organization.
The House is expected to pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and … Read More
On May 11, 2018, the customer due diligence rule, 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230 (the “CDD Rule”), issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN“) became applicable two years after it was issued. The CDD Rule added a new requirement for covered financial institutions to identify, … Read More
On May 17, 2018, Lawrence Goodman, the President of the Center for Financial Stability, conducted an interview with Sir Paul Tucker. Sir Paul is the former Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England and is currently the Chair of the Systemic Risk Council, a Harvard Fellow, and … Read More
As mid-year 2018 approaches, we have updated our brief deck summarizing the leadership and staffing changes among federal financial regulators, including announced nominations and resignations and expiring terms. The first slide summaries the state of play for the principals, and the later slides provide a deeper dive on an agency-by-agency … Read More
Financial services regulatory reform in 2018 is complex and evolving. To assist in navigating this landscape, we have prepared a reference tool that provides context and summarizes current developments across a range of key regulatory areas, agencies and actors. We will continue to track these issues and provide updated versions … Read More
Notwithstanding the venerable status of the attorney-client privilege and the important purposes it serves, the federal banking regulators and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have taken the position that they have the legal authority to override the privilege and compel supervised institutions to produce information protected by the privilege. Seven … Read More
The increased emphasis by the prudential banking agencies on recovery planning is evidenced by the Comptroller’s recent publication of a new recovery planning module for the Comptroller’s Handbook. The addition of this module to the handbook flows from the OCC’s previously published guidelines[1] on recovery planning.[2] Recovery planning … Read More
On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced that he was terminating the United States’ participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) with Iran and issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (“NSPM”) directing his administration to immediately begin the process of fully re-imposing sanctions that … Read More
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The Problem of Digital Asset Fungibility
There have long been discussions … Read More
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 regulatory reforms in the United States in five key areas: