Our public memorandum here describes the notice of proposed rulemaking published by the CFTC on June 12, 2018 that would make permanent the $8 billion temporary swap dealer de minimis registration threshold currently in effect and would make other changes to the de minimis exception.
Status of Financial Regulatory Leadership Changes
By Paul E. Means on
As we head into the July 4th holiday and the heart of summer approaches, we have updated our brief deck summarizing the leadership and staffing changes among federal financial regulators, including announced nominations, resignations and expiring terms. The first slide summarizes the state of play for the agencies’ principals; … Read More
Davis Polk Financial Services Regulatory Reform Tool—Summer Beach Read Edition
Posted in Administrative Law, Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Capital, Bank Regulation, CFPB, CFTC, Community Reinvestment Act, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Dodd-Frank, Economic Sanctions, FDIC, Federal Reserve, FSOC, Legislation, Liquidity, OCC, OFAC, Stress Testing, Swap Regulation, TLAC, U.S. Basel III, U.S. Congress, Volcker Rule
Financial services regulatory reform in 2018 continues to evolve. For those of you who have been thinking you might catch up over the summer lull, here is the summer beach read edition of our reference tool, which provides context and summarizes current developments across a range of key regulatory areas, … Read More
Federal Reserve Releases 2018 CCAR Results
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 Stress Test results published the previous week, and have prepared a graphical summary available here. As our summary shows, on … Read More
Federal Reserve and FDIC Issue Proposed Guidance on U.S. G-SIBs’ 2019 Resolution Plan Submissions
By The Davis Polk FIG Team on
Today, the Federal Reserve and FDIC issued and invited comments on proposed guidance on the 2019 and subsequent submissions of the U.S. G-SIBs’ 165(d) resolution plans. The Proposed Guidance is available here.
The Proposed Guidance is largely similar to the guidance issued by the Agencies in April 2016, with … Read More
OFAC Announces Regulations and Guidance Implementing Withdrawal from the JCPOA
Posted in Economic Sanctions, OFAC
On June 27, 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced amendments to the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”), 31 C.F.R. part 560, and published updated answers to frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) to further implement President Trump’s May 8, … Read More
SDNY Weighs In on the Constitutionality of the CFPB’s Structure
Posted in CFPB
Arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the CFPB’s structure, never fully put to rest despite the D.C. Circuit’s en banc decision in PHH v. CFPB, are back in the headlines this week. Yesterday, Senior United States District Judge Loretta A. Preska of the Southern District of New York issued a … Read More
Federal Banking Agencies’ New Policy on Coordinating Enforcement Actions Is an Important First Step
Not enough attention has been paid to the FFIEC’s policy announcement on enforcement which is, we hope, the first step toward fundamental change. The Policy Statement on Interagency Notification of Formal Enforcement Actions rescinds a 1997 policy statement and addresses the need for coordination in enforcement actions among the Board … Read More
Visual Memoranda: The Federal Reserve’s Proposed Governance Guidance for Boards and Management and Proposed Large Financial Institution Rating System
On June 19, 2018, Margaret E. Tahyar will moderate the “Supervisory and Examination Issues and Updates” panel at the 2018 Prudential Regulation Conference hosted by SIFMA and The Clearing House in Washington, D.C. In connection with Ms. Tahyar’s participation in this event, we are today releasing two interrelated visual memoranda … Read More
Visual Memorandum: Proposed Amendments to the Volcker Rule Regulations
Our visual memorandum here 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 possible additional amendments. To make the analysis more user-friendly, the memorandum incorporates elements of Davis Polk’s flowcharts on the … Read More