Derrick D. Cephas, the head of Weil’s Financial Institutions Regulatory practice, published an interesting article with Bank Director magazine detailing how banks can approach new industry regulations in a constructive manner and how the new rules have changed the regulatory landscape.
Commercial Banks
Weil’s Marcia L. Goldstein, Heath P. Tarbert, and Kathlene M. Burke authored a column for The New York Law Journal discussing the recently finalized implementing rule in connection with resolution plans, or “living wills,” concluding that the regulations still leave a substantial degree of uncertainty as to what exactly it will take to ensure a plan is “credible.”
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The October 25, 2011 webinar titled “The Volcker Rule’s Impact on Private Funds: Recent Rulemakings and Market Trends” is now available on demand.
The program featured Weil’s Harvey Eisenberg, Derrick Cephas, and Heath Tarbert and addressed recent and forthcoming rules pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act’s Volcker Rule (Section 619) whereby large, systemically important banks will have to divest certain fund operations.
Systemic Risk: The Age of SIFIs and GSIBs
The Clearing House’s First Annual Business Meeting & Conference
November 9-10, 2011, New York Palace Hotel, New York, NY | Register Now
Weil’s Heath Tarbert is scheduled to appear as a panelist at The Clearing House’s First Annual Business Meeting & Conference, to be held on November 9-10 at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY. The conference will examine the commercial banking regulatory and payments landscape in the post-Dodd-Frank era, as well as other related legal and tax issues. Mr. Tarbert’s panel will discuss current Dodd-Frank rulemakings pertaining to the Orderly Liquidation Authority, Title II, Early Remediation, and resolution planning, or “living wills.”
Preparing for a New Environment for Compliance & Enforcement
New York Bankers Association Financial Services Forum
November 9-11, 2011, New York, NY, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel | Register Now
Derrick Cephas will be a speaker on the panel “Preparing for a New Environment for Compliance & Enforcement,” on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at the New York Bankers Association Financial Services Forum. The event will take place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, NY.


