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Global Financial Markets

Dec 19, 2023

The authors of our recent Legal Update provide an overview of the SEC’s (Securities and Exchange Commission) recently adopted rule, which prohibits conflicts of interest in certain securitizations as required under the Dodd-Frank Act. Although not perfect, the final rule is a significant improvement over the...


Dec 14, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently proposed an extensive framework of rules to ensure consumer access to certain information at their financial institutions. The rules would require financial institutions to make certain data relating to consumers' transactions and accounts available to consumers and...


Dec 7, 2023

With less than 30 days until the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership reporting requirement takes effect, questions still abound. While only new entities will be subject to reporting requirements at first, thousands of those are formed every day who will need to understand—and apply—these new...


Nov 30, 2023

  1. The US federal banking regulators recently finalized major changes to their decades-old Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations, which will have significant consequences for many US banks. Please join Mayer Brown lawyers Kerri Webb, Kris Kully, and Jeffrey Taft as they discuss:
  • How the final regulations differ...


Nov 21, 2023

While the recent US Basel Endgame proposal will affect many elements of the capital rules, it will especially impact operational risk, a new category of capital charge for most banks. Midsize and larger US banking organizations will need to develop extensive loss-event tracking and quantification systems to comply with...