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Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses SEC Proposal to Enhance Proxy Voting Disclosure by Investment Funds

By Donald R. Crawshaw, Eric M. Diamond, Joseph A. Hearn, Sarah P. Payne and Marc Trevino October 11, 2021 by benzonenshayn

On September 29, 2021, the SEC issued a proposed rulemaking to enhance the information mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other registered management investment companies (“funds”) report annually about their proxy votes. The proposal also would require so-called “institutional investment managers” …

The Real Effects of Conflict Minerals Disclosures

By Bok Baik, Omri Even-Tov, Russell Han and David Park September 22, 2021 by renholding

Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted the conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) rule, which requires issuers to perform due diligence on “conflict minerals” – natural resources known to fuel conflicts in underdeveloped nations – that …

Whistleblowing Should Be Part of President Biden’s Fight Against Corruption

By Stephen M. Kohn September 15, 2021 by renholding

On June 3, 2021 President Joseph Biden issued a “Memorandum on Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core United States National Security Interest,” (hereinafter “Anti-Corruption Memorandum” or “Memorandum”). In issuing the Memorandum, President Biden placed fighting corruption …

Reforming the Macroprudential Regulatory Architecture in the United States

By Kathryn Judge and Anil Kashyap July 26, 2021 by renholding

When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered major economies in March 2020, it also wreaked havoc on financial markets. In the first few weeks of March, investment-grade corporate bonds lost roughly a fifth of their value, on par with the declines in …

How Regulatory Stress Tests Affect Bank Lending

By Falk Bräuning and José Fillat February 15, 2021 by renholding

The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in 2010 in the wake of the Great Recession, introduced mandatory stress-testing for the largest U.S. banks. Dodd-Frank Act Stress Testing (DFAST) was intended to ensure that banks have sufficient capitalization to absorb the losses they …

The Unfinished Business of Regulating Clearinghouses

By Paolo Saguato January 7, 2021 by renholding

The Dodd-Frank Act recently celebrated its 10^th anniversary, with commentators, policymakers, and scholars joining the celebration by discussing the achievements of the sweeping post-crisis financial reform. Yet Dodd-Frank left critical unfinished business that, if not addressed, could erode the …

SEC Chair Speaks on Resource Extraction Disclosure Rules

By Jay Clayton December 17, 2020 by renholding

Today [December 16], we take another step in a winding, resource-consuming, decade-long journey to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. In 2010, Section 1504 added Section 13(q) to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which directed the Commission to

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A Tale of Two Enforcement Venues: Why the SEC’s Choice of Where to File Cases Matters

By Xin Zheng December 11, 2020 by renholding

The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 allows the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bring enforcement actions and impose civil penalties in administrative proceedings as alternatives to federal district courts. Some argue that this gives the SEC a “home-court” advantage. For …

Resurrecting the Office of Financial Research

By Hilary J. Allen November 30, 2020 by renholding

The Office of Financial Research (“OFR”) was created by the Dodd-Frank Act to help address the gaps in data availability and analysis that had hampered governmental authorities in their response to the financial crisis of 2008. It was hoped that …

Enforcement Against the Biggest Banks

By David Zaring November 23, 2020 by renholding

My article, Enforcement Against the Biggest Banks, takes a census of the hundreds of enforcement actions by American regulators against the world’s largest banks between the passage of Dodd-Frank in July 2010 and December 31, 2016, near the end …

Presidential Pendulums in Finance

By Christina Parajon Skinner November 11, 2020 by renholding

While much attention has been paid to President Trump’s deregulatory efforts and intentions, presidential involvement in the work of the administrative agencies is not new. Past presidents including Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama have acted up to – …

The Deterrent Effect of Whistleblowing on Insider Trading

By Jacob Raleigh October 23, 2020 by renholding

One of the many significant reforms enacted in The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was the creation of a whistleblower bounty program within the SEC. The program increased monetary rewards for whistleblowing and provided protections …

Banking Bailout Law

By Virág Blazsek October 22, 2020 by renholding

Bank bailouts during periodic financial crises aim to stop financial panic and restore the stability of the financial system. Even if they are undesirable, future bank bailouts are unavoidable due to political and political economy reasons, whether or not they …

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto Discusses Changes to SEC Whistleblower Rules

By Stephen Kohn and Siri Nelson September 25, 2020 by renholding

On September 23, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved changes to its highly successful Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower program in a 3-2 vote [1]. The program has resulted in over $2.5 billion in penalties against public companies, $750 million …

Public Disclosure and Consumer Financial Protection

By Yiwei Dou and Yongoh Roh August 17, 2020 by renholding

The 2008 financial crisis triggered a surge of interest in regulating consumer financial markets. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to safeguard consumer interests. Since 2011, the CFPB …

Why Financial Regulation Keeps Falling Short

By Dan Awrey and Kathryn Judge February 25, 2020 by renholding

Modern finance is fast moving, extremely complex, and contributes to pervasive unknowns. Yet the processes governing how finance is regulated are typically slow, highly deliberative, and often reflect deeply ingrained and incredibly optimistic assumptions about our ability to understand the …

SEC Chair Clayton on Proposed Amendments to Volcker Rule and Disclosure Items

By Jay Clayton January 31, 2020 by renholding

Volcker Rule

Today, the Commission joined the Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC and CFTC in proposing additional amendments to the implementing regulations under section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act, commonly known as the “Volcker Rule.”[1] The proposed amendments,

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Davis Polk Discusses FSOC’s Shift to an Activities-Based Approach

By Annette Nazareth, Margaret Tahyar and Randy Guynn January 22, 2020 by renholding

The Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) recently revised guidelines (the 2019 Guidelines)[1] on how it will identify and address financial stability risks are a major shift from the guidelines it issued in the immediate aftermath of …

Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses FSOC Changes to Nonbank SIFI-Designation Guidance

By Marion Leydier, William Torchiana, Samuel Woodall, Roderick Gilman and Jeremy Knobel January 6, 2020 by renholding

On December 4, 2019, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the “Council”) voted unanimously to finalize amendments to its interpretive guidance (the “Final Guidance”) on designating nonbank financial companies as “systemically important financial institutions” (“SIFIs”).…

Too Many to Fail: Against Community Bank Deregulation

By Jeremy C. Kress and Matthew C. Turk January 2, 2020 by renholding

If there was one thing most people could agree on after the 2008 financial crisis, it was that “too-big-to-fail” banks were to blame for the market crash. This shared understanding was accompanied by a corollary: Small banks were not the …

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