The future of resolution planning for U.S. global systemically important banking organizations (G-SIBs) has started to come into focus. The FDIC and the Federal Reserve have recently laid out an ambitious agenda designed to put in place Resolution Planning 2.0. This slide sets forth our collection of the
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Davis Polk Financial Services Regulatory Reform Tool—Post Midterm Election Edition
Posted in Administrative Law, Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Capital, Bank Regulation, BCFP, CFTC, Community Reinvestment Act, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Dodd-Frank, Economic Sanctions, FDIC, Federal Reserve, FinTech, FSOC, Legislation, Liquidity, OCC, OFAC, Stress Testing, Swap Regulation, TLAC, U.S. Basel III, U.S. Congress, Volcker Rule
Financial services regulatory reform will continue to evolve in 2018 and 2019. As we observe the changing legislative landscape, here is the Post Midterm Election Edition of our reference tool, which provides context and summarizes current developments across a range of key regulatory areas, agencies and actors. We will continue…
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CFTC Chairman Giancarlo’s White Paper Outlines Specific Recommendations to Cross-Border Swaps Regulation
After a several-year pause, the CFTC is again re-assessing its approach to cross-border regulation of swap activities. The CFTC’s current approach is embodied in various rulemakings, guidance, orders, and agreements with non-U.S. regulators that have been adopted, issued, and entered into since 2013. The CFTC has, over the past several…
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SEC Reopens Comment Period for Security-Based Swap Capital, Margin and Segregation Rules
On October 11, 2018, the SEC reopened the comment period and requested additional comments for previously proposed rules relating to capital, margin, and segregation requirements for security-based swap dealers (“SBSDs”), major security-based swap participants (“MSBSPs,” and together with SBSDs, “SBS Entities”) and, in some…
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Davis Polk Financial Services Regulatory Reform Tool—Fall Focus Edition
Posted in Administrative Law, Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Capital, Bank Regulation, BCFP, CFTC, Community Reinvestment Act, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Dodd-Frank, Economic Sanctions, FDIC, Federal Reserve, FinTech, 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. As we leave summer behind, here is the Fall Focus edition of our reference tool, which provides context and summarizes current developments across a range of key regulatory areas, agencies and actors. We will continue to track these issues and will…
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CFTC Staff Provides Time Limited De Minimis Relief to a Regional BHC and its IDI Subsidiaries
Last week, the CFTC’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (“DSIO”) issued time limited no-action relief to a regional commercial bank holding company and its insured depository institution (“IDI”) subsidiaries from having to count certain loan-related swaps toward its swap dealer de minimis threshold. Currently,…
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Recommended Read: CFS Financial Crisis Timeline
By Randall D. Guynn & Margaret E. Tahyar on
The Center for Financial Stability is providing a freely accessible Financial Timeline, curated by Senior Fellow Yubo Wang. The timeline, created in 2010 and actively maintained, charts more than 1,100 developments across the markets, institutions, the Federal Reserve, Treasury and other sources, from 2007 to the present. This resource, which…
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CFTC Adopts Final Rule Amendments Simplifying CCO Duties and Annual Report Rules for FCMs, Swap Dealers and MSPs
By Annette L. Nazareth & Meghan E. King on
The CFTC unanimously approved Final Rule amendments on August 21, 2018 to the regulations governing chief compliance officer (“CCO”) duties and annual compliance reporting requirements for FCMs, swap dealers and MSPs (“Registrants”). These amendments are the first substantive rule amendments to be adopted under Chairman Giancarlo’s…
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Public Memorandum: CFTC Proposes Maintaining Swap Dealer De Minimis Registration Threshold at $8 Billion with Expanded Exceptions
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.
Davis Polk Financial Services Regulatory Reform Tool—Summer Beach Read Edition
Posted in Administrative Law, Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Capital, Bank Regulation, BCFP, 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,…
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