In an open Board meeting on Friday, February 27, 2009, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) is expected to discuss a modification to the Temporary Liquidity Guarante...
On February 2, 2009 the Securities and Exchange Commission published the text of its new rules for credit rating agencies registered as nationally recognized statistical rating organizati...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued final rules requiring certain foreign private issuers to provide financial statements in XBRL format. The rules, which were anno...
The SEC has issued final rules requiring companies to provide financial statements in XBRL format. The rules, which were announced in late December, are largely as expected but do contain...
After a year of proposed rulemaking, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently finalized the first amendments to its reserves and other reporting requirements for the oil a...
The political struggle has begun over the conditions that will be attached to the release of the second half of the TARP funds. The first public salvo in this struggle was fired by Repres...
Due to continuing equity market turmoil, many companies are at risk of losing the ability to issue securities off of an automatic shelf registration statement. When a company files its an...
The SEC recently adopted final rules that will require companies to provide financial statement information to the SEC in an interactive data format using eXtensible Business Reporting La...
The United States Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently adopted final rules that will require certain non-US companies to provide financial information to the SEC in an in...
Many companies are beginning preparations for their 2008 Form 10-K. While there are no new Form 10-K requirements this year, in light of the extraordinary financial market conditions whic...
