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

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:

  1. swap execution on swap execution facilities (“SEFs”);
  2. trade
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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 language. To give a more tangible sense of what may be at stake and the efforts required to transition, it provides in-depth analyses … Read More

On May 1, 2018, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued two amended Ukraine/Russia related General Licenses (“GLs”): GL 12B, “Authorizing Certain Activities Necessary to Maintenance or Wind Down of Operations or Existing Contracts” and GL 13A, “Authorizing Certain … Read More