Early this morning, the House-Senate Conference on the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 (the “Act”) agreed on the final legislative text of the Act, including Section 619 (the “Volcker Rule?...
The following chart compares the provisions of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, passed by the Senate on May 20, 2010, and the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protec...
On May 20, 2010, the Senate passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (the “Senate bill” or the “bill”) by a vote of 59 to 39. Four Republicans voted with the ...
On April 23, 2010, the FDIC issued new Q&As (the “April Q&As”) that clarify certain aspects of its Statement of Policy for Failed Bank Acquisitions (the “Policy Statement”), but l...
The number of insured institutions on the FDIC’s “troubled bank” list grew to over 700 at the end of 2009 (nearly three times the number of banks on the list at the end of 2008), re...
Bank Holding Company Amendments (Title VI)
Volcker Rule
All purely technical and uninteresting, except for the following changes (insertions underlined):
Definition of proprietary tr...
I. Institutional Arrangements
Financial Stability Oversight Council. Interagency Council, consisting of 9 voting members – the Treasury Secretary (Chairperson) and the heads of Fed, OCC...
Senators Merkley (D-OR) and Levin (D-MI) proposed a bill yesterday that would substantially expand the prohibitions on proprietary trading and certain asset management activities recently...
On March 3, 2010, the Department of the Treasury delivered to the Hill proposed legislative text to implement the “Volcker Rule” announced by the Obama Administration on January 21st....
President Barack Obama’s announcement that his Administration would seek to limit both the activities and size of U.S. financial institutions (the “Obama Proposal”) immediately gene...
