In a long-awaited report to the President, the Treasury Department recommended reforming—but not repealing—the orderly liquidation authority (“OLA”) created by Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act (“Title II”), while also recommending the addition of a new Chapter 14 to the Bankruptcy Code. Concluding “unequivocally that
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Resolution
The Bank of England’s Presumptive Path
By Randall D. Guynn & Andrew Samuel on
Posted in Bank Regulation, Resolution
Last week, the Bank of England updated its public disclosure about how it would use its resolution powers to ensure that systemically important banks can be allowed to fail without destabilizing the financial system or using public funds to bail out their private sector shareholders or bondholders. See The Bank …
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