by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | May 19, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Newly proposed cross-border regulations issued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission have made waves across the globe, with nine overseas finance officials urging US Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to limit the cross-border reach of Dodd-Frank Act swaps...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | May 19, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Today Treasury Secretary Jack Lew delivered a broad policy address to an audience at the Pew Charitable Trust. For the most part, Lew spoke about progress the Treasury and Administration have made thus far ending too-big-to-fail and reigning in many of the perceived...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | May 12, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Over the past few decades, US and other financial regulators have had to think more and more about their regulations not just from a domestic standpoint, but from a global perspective as well. One prime example is the US Securities and Exchange Commission, whose...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Apr 27, 2013 | All, Cross-Post
Stanford law professor Michael Klausner, and his colleagues Jason Hegland and Matthew Goforth, have published an update to their 2011 studies reporting data on the timing of dismissals and settlements in securities class actions. In this latest update published in the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Apr 22, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Commentary, Lender Directed Voting
Over the past sixty years, as more and more people in the US have begun to participate in the capital markets through retirement plans, mutual funds, ETFs and other pooled investment vehicles, institutional investors have grown from bit players in the markets, owning...
