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.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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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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.”
As noted today in Weil’s Bankruptcy Blog, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation published notice yesterday in the Federal Register that they are adopting the final rule to implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s requirement concerning resolution plans, which are commonly referred to as “living wills”.
New ‘Living Will’ Requirements for Banks and Resolution Powers for Regulators
Institute of International Bankers
November 30, 2011, Harold Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY | Register Now
Weil’s Derrick Cephas will appear at the IIB conference Implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act – Key Issues for International Banks. Mr. Cephas’ panel is titled “New ‘Living Will’ Requirements for Banks and Resolution Powers for Regulators” and will commence at 1:45 p.m.
