House Speaker Paul Ryan’s A Better Way policy agenda states that “it is time for serious and fundamental reform” of how regulations are made. The House of Representatives is conside...
Early press accounts of President Trump’s regulatory moratorium are highly misleading for financial sector regulations. On Friday, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued a me...
The following is the Davis Polk visual memorandum analyzing the Federal Reserve’s final rule on total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC), eligible long-term debt (LTD) and clean holding com...
Last week, the House of Representatives passed two bills and considered another that would dramatically expand Congress’s role in the oversight of agency rulemaking. Although we think t...
The OCC’s proposed framework for granting special purpose national bank charters could hold significant promise by providing the benefits of federal preemption and a stable regulatory s...
Those who are not closely following PHH v. CFPB may not be aware that the panel decision is not final and effective. PHH is the D.C. Circuit decision holding that the current structure of...
The transition of power from one Administration to another, especially when it involves a change of party, is governed both by law and custom. Both may be changing. In this post, we exami...
President-Elect Trump’s transition website promises to “dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act and replace it with new policies to encourage economic growth and job creation.” To help our cl...
This blog post sets out how rollback of the Dodd-Frank Act or its implementing regulations might work. President Elect Trump’s administration and the new Republican majority in Congress...
Not surprisingly, the many media and political reactions to the PHH Corp. v. CFPB decision have reflected the competing stakeholder interests around every aspect of the CFPB.In this memor...
