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Financial regulation after the Dodd-Frank Act has produced a blizzard of acronyms, many of which revolve around the “too big to fail” (TBTF) problem. OLA, OLF, SPOE, and TLAC are new regulatory tools that seek to build a new regime for resolving failures of systemically important financial...
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Traditionally, a non-bank financial company (NBFC) facing financial insolvency would reorganize pursuant to Chapter 11 … the relevant regulatory attempts to clarify “systemic risk”, a non-bank financial company would be hard pressed to know …, a non-bank financial company could assure itself that federal regulators would not interfere with the Chapter 11 …
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“Decoupling” - the unbundling of the rights and obligations of equity and debt through derivatives and other means - has posed unique challenges for corporate and debt governance. Corporate governance mechanisms, including those related to shareholder voting and blockholder disclosure in...
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To reduce the risk of another financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act requires that trading in certain derivatives be backed by clearinghouses. Critics mount two main objections: a clearinghouse shifts risk instead of reducing it; and a clearinghouse could fail, requiring a bailout. This Article's...
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This chapter argues that the work of the European Banking Union remains incomplete in one important respect, the structural re-organization of large European financial firms that would make “resolution” of a systemically important financial firm a credible alternative to bail-out or some...
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The purpose of this paper, structured in three Sections, is twofold: (a) The first is to analyse the conditions under which a group of financial firms is considered to be a ‘financial conglomerate' in accordance with the (complex) definition of this term in Article 2 (point (14)) of the...
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the main consequences of the global financial crisis, the pro-cyclical contraction of bank credit, and the advanced …
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When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...
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(CBIR), the Englush court in Re Stanford International Bank over-emphasised third-party ascertainability due to an apparent …
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The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes requirements (and certain incentives) for internal compliance mechanisms that do not exist in current legislation. These requirements, which will have an impact on internal processes and staffing of firms, such as the requirement...
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