Treasury Proposes “Volcker Rule” Legislative Text
Editor's Note: Annette Nazareth is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. This post is based on a Davis Polk client memorandum. On March 3, 2010, the Department...
View ArticleReform for the Covered Bond Industry on the Horizon
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Barton Winokur, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dechert LLP, and is based on a Dechert publication by Patrick D. Dolan, Robert H. Ledig,...
View ArticleTreasury Clarifies FBAR Regulations for Private Investment Funds
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Betty Santangelo, Philippe Benedict, Shlomo C. Twerski and William I. Friedman of Schulte Roth & Zabel, and is based on a Schulte Roth & Zabel...
View ArticleA Plan to Tax the Foreign Income of U.S. Companies
Editor’s Note: Robert Pozen is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This post is based on an op-ed that appeared today in Bloomberg. The...
View ArticleCan the Treasury Exempt its Own Companies from Tax? The $45 Billion GM NOL...
Editor's Note: Mark Ramseyer is a Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Year after year, General Motors lost money – enormous sums of money. It designed cars. It built cars. But no...
View ArticleProposed Rules Ease Compliance with Loss Trafficking Rules
Editor's Note: James Morphy is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP specializing in mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance. This post is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell publication;...
View ArticleMeasuring Continuity of Interest in Reorganizations
Editor's Note: James Morphy is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP specializing in mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance. This post is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell publication...
View ArticleImpact of the FATCA Proposed Regulations on Capital Markets Transactions
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Leslie B. Samuels, partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department,...
View ArticleMay 2012 Dodd-Frank Progress Report
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Margaret E. Tahyar and Gabriel D. Rosenberg of the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. This post discusses a Davis Polk...
View ArticleEvaluating Large-Scale Asset Purchases
Editor’s Note: This post is based on the recent remarks of Jeremy C. Stein, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Brookings Institution; the full speech, including...
View ArticleTreasury Issues FX Swap and FX Forward Exemption
Editor's Note: Annette Nazareth is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and a former commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is...
View ArticleCorporate Finance Perspective on Large-Scale Asset Purchases
Editor’s Note: This post is based on the recent remarks of Jeremy C. Stein, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Third Boston University/Boston Fed Conference on...
View ArticleNonbank SIFIs: No Solace for US Asset Managers
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Dan Ryan, Leader of the Financial Services Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and is based on a PwC publication. Ever since the Treasury...
View ArticleAsset Manager SIFI Designation: Enter SEC
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Dan Ryan, Leader of the Financial Services Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and is based on a PwC publication. Asset managers who...
View ArticleSEC Adopts Money Market Fund Reforms
Editor's Note: Annette Nazareth is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and a former commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The...
View ArticleTreasury Department Seeks to Curb Inversion Transactions
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Jodi J. Schwartz, partner in the Tax Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and is based on a Wachtell Lipton memorandum by Ms. Schwartz...
View Article2014 Year-End Review of BSA/AML and Sanctions Developments
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell publication by Elizabeth T. Davy, Jared M. Fishman, Eric J. Kadel Jr., and...
View ArticleResolution Preparedness: Do You Know Where Your QFCs Are?
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Dan Ryan, Leader of the Financial Services Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and is based on a PwC publication by Mr. Ryan, Frank...
View ArticleIllegality and Hardball in Government’s Nationalization of AIG
Editor's Note: Lawrence A. Cunningham is Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. This post builds on Professor Cunningham’s recent article...
View ArticleRevisiting the Regulatory Framework of the US Treasury Market
Editor's Note: Luis A. Aguilar is a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is based on Commissioner Aguilar’s recent public statement; the full text, including...
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