Davis Polk Insights on Financial Regulation
The SEC recently proposed amendments to the current market data infrastructure to expand the content required to be published on the consolidated tape and decentralize the collection, consolidation, and dissemination of market data through the introduction of proposed competing consolidators and self-aggregators.
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The FDIC proposed a rule to formalize certain longstanding expectations it has for approving applications by new industrial loan companies (ILCs) that would be subsidiaries of a parent company that would not be subject to consolidated supervision by the Federal Reserve. The proposal would require a written agreement…
Continue Reading Client Memorandum: FDIC Proposes Supervision of ILC Holding Companies
On December 18, 2019, the CFTC proposed rules that would modify and codify the cross-border application of certain of its Title VII swap rules to both U.S. and non-U.S. registered swap dealers and major swap participants. Among other changes, these proposed rules would revise (1) which cross-border swaps must be…
Continue Reading Visual Memo: CFTC Proposes Amendments to Cross-Border Rules
On December 10, 2019, the CFTC reopened the comment period for the proposed capital requirements for swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs) that are not subject to the capital rules of a prudential regulator (together, Covered Swap Entities). These rules are the last…
Continue Reading The Last Piece of the Puzzle: CFTC Reopens Comment Period for Capital Requirements and Proposes Amendments to Inter-Affiliate Swap Clearing Exemption
Building upon its BitLicense regime instituted in 2015, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has proposed two mechanisms by which entities that hold BitLicenses or trust charters with virtual currency authority (VC Licensees) may list or provide other approved services in a…
Continue Reading NYDFS Proposes a Streamlined Approval Process for Services in New Virtual Currencies
On November 27, 2019, the United States Department of Commerce issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking public comment on “regulations that would govern the process and procedures that the Secretary of Commerce will use to identify, assess, and address certain information and communications technology and services transactions that…
Continue Reading U.S. Department of Commerce Proposes Rule Governing Information and Communications Technology and Services
Since the 2016 Second Circuit decision in Madden v. Midland Funding, LLC,[1] banks and their non-bank lending partners have faced legal uncertainty about their ability to assign or transfer loans. The Madden decision and subsequent actions by state courts have called into question the “valid-when-made” doctrine, which stands…
Continue Reading U.S. Federal Banking Regulators Propose a Madden Fix
In a long-awaited milestone, the SEC has proposed an update of Guide 3, the industry guide for banking organizations. The proposal eliminates a number of the current requirements under Guide 3 and streamlines many of those that remain. The three “new” credit quality ratios in the proposal are, in practice,…
Continue Reading Better Late Than Never: SEC Proposes Guide 3 Update
Navigating the outdated rules on confidential supervisory information has become increasingly difficult in the digital world because the rules have their origin in the paper-based world of 1967, when they were first enacted. In the meantime, the amount and type of information made available by the banking agencies to banking…
Continue Reading Davis Polk Comments on Federal Reserve’s Proposed Rule on Confidential Supervisory Information
The Financial Standards Accounting Board (FASB) voted on Wednesday to propose delaying the implementation date of the Current Expected Credit Losses accounting standard (CECL) until 2023, for all companies other than larger SEC filers. The proposal would reduce the number of implementation dates from three to…
Continue Reading CECL Delayed for Small and Private Companies, But 2020 Implementation is Likely Here to Stay