by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Nov 19, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
The financial crisis of 2007-08 was a crisis of liquidity. Facing deep uncertainty about the condition of counterparties and the value of collateral assets, investors refused to offer new short-term lending or even to roll over existing repos and similar extensions of...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Nov 18, 2014 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies, ROSE
On November 13, the Financial Stability Board published a consultation report that sets forth proposed standards and processes for global securities financing and data collection and aggregation. Previously, the FSB recommended that national/regional authorities...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Nov 13, 2014 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies
On November 6, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission granted Eaton Vance’s request to launch an “exchange traded managed fund” (ETMF), a new kind of exchange traded fund. Only a week before, the SEC provisionally denied similar requests for ETMFs...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Oct 28, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale
These heightened capital requirements for licensed banks may trigger even more regulatory arbitrage than was observed in the recent past, thereby inducing a large migration of banking activities towards the shadow banking system. The higher solvency of the licensed...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Oct 22, 2014 | All
In 2009, American International Group (AIG) sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to recover approximately $306 million in denied tax credits. After negotiating a tortuous litigation process, the dispute has surfaced again in court. On October 17, 2014, AIG argued...