Saturday, November 19, 2011

ISS Issues Policy Updates for the 2012 Proxy Season

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has published the 2012 updates to its US and international corporate governance policies. These guidelines are applicable to shareholder meetings held on or after February 1, 2012.  Given the attention regulators and legislators have taken in corporate governance issues as of late, the new ISS guidelines for US companies include changes in several important areas.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

FSB Task Force Issues Recommendations for Shadow Banking Regulation

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
A Financial Stability Board task force has published recommendations to strengthen the oversight and regulation of the shadow banking system. These eagerly awaited recommendations provide much needed guidance to regulatory authorities on monitoring and designing regulation of shadow banking activities and entities.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Geithner: Shadow Banking Remains a Key Regulatory Target

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Dodd-Frank Developments Affecting Swaps

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
For the most part, provisions of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection relating to derivatives are aimed at increasing transparency, altering clearing and exchange trading requirements, regulation of swap dealers and other swap market participants, restrictions on swaps trading by banks and associated increases in capital and margin requirements. The Act leaves many of the details of implementation to regulators. With over a year behind us, we can now reflect on what regulators have proposed, adopted, and left unfinished with regard to swaps.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

September 2011 Basel Committee Recap

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
At its September 28, 2011 meeting, the Basel Committee (the “Committee) approved a range of measures aimed at finalizing the Committee’s July 2011 consultative document, “Global systemically important banks: Assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement.” The document sets out the Committee’s proposal on the assessment methodology for (1) determining global systemic importance, (2) determining the magnitude of additional loss absorbency that global systemically important banks should have, and (3) proposes the arrangements by which the methodologies will be phased in. 
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