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2024 Pre-Election Analysis: Financial Services

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Financial services encompass a wide range of services offered by the nation’s financial institutions, including banking, mortgage, investment, and credit services. The next administration and Congress’s financial services...more

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2024 Financial Institutions Outlook & Trends

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This article, updated quarterly, looks ahead to the areas expected to be prioritized by financial services regulators across the globe; we look at the key regulatory trends emerging from the past year which inform our...more

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Promissory Notes - Banking & Finance Insights: V 3, Issue 7, August 2023

Giant Banks Paid More for Deposits in Q2. That's Bad News for Small Lenders. “But many smaller institutions, some of whom turned to more expensive borrowings to replace deposits lost in the spring, don't have as many...more

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2023 Off & Running in Different ESG Directions?

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Just over a month into 2023, we are poised for friction between the Biden Administration’s ESG strategy efforts and those of certain Congressional leaders now in the majority. A variety of proposed rules and legislation...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

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UK Government Publishes UK Infrastructure Bill

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The U.K. Government has published the U.K. Infrastructure Bill, a piece of legislation designed to put the U.K. Infrastructure Bank on a statutory footing. The Bank was launched in interim form in June 2021 as part of the...more

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JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability (Encore Presentation)

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A JONES DAY TALKS® Encore Presentation. From May 2021. The European Central Bank's decision to establish a Climate Change Center and invest in a green bond fund launched by the Bank for International Settlements reflects the...more

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Brazil’s Central Bank issues Social, Environmental and Climate Risks and Opportunities Report

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The Central Bank of Brazil published a Report on Social, Environmental and Climate Risks and Opportunities in order to promote transparency, the availability of credit and sustainable finance in the Brazilian financial...more

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Regulatory Hot Topics: Highlights

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It has been a period rife with notable shifts on the global stage; a new administration in the US, the end of the Brexit transition period and the reaching of key milestones in the discontinuation of LIBOR, to name but a few....more

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Government and Private Sector Leaders Bring Focus on Biodiversity and Nature to COP26

As we previewed before the 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26, or the “Conference”), ongoing international discussions have produced notable initiatives to...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Financial Stability Oversight Council Issues Key Report Declaring Climate Change as an Emerging Threat to U.S. Financial Stability

On October 21, 2021, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”), established in 2010 by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to respond to emerging threats to the stability of the U.S....more

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A Glimpse into Required Climate Risk Disclosure Considerations by the SEC

On July 28, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler delivered remarks at the Principles for Responsible Investment’s Climate and Global Financial Markets Webinar. In his remarks, he offered a glimpse of...more

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Private Bank Briefing – June 2021

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The latest edition of our Private Bank Briefing provides a roundup of legal and compliance issues impacting private banks and their clients from Q2 2021. In this edition, we cover sustainable finance developments, the...more

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Nachhaltige Finanzierungen (Sustainable Finance) in der Kreditwirtschaft

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Das Thema nachhaltige Finanzierung (Sustainable Finance) nimmt weiter an Fahrt auf und steht Anfang 2021 erneut im Fokus: diesseits des Atlantiks ist zum 10. März 2021 die EU-Offenlegungsverordnung in Kraft getreten, nach der...more

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President Biden Signs Executive Order Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks

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In This Issue. President Biden signed an executive order addressing climate-related financial risks; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized a rule applicable to national banks and federal savings...more

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JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability

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The European Central Bank's decision to establish a Climate Change Center and invest in a green bond fund launched by the Bank for International Settlements reflects the growing importance of climate change, and ESG more...more

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SEC Adopts Broad Exempt Offering Reforms

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In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted broad exempt offering reforms; the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule, with significant revisions from the original proposal, on ESG investments; the...more

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French Financial Legal Committee Report Reflects on Climate Change Liability

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On July 19, 2020, the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris ("HCJP") issued a report on social and environmental responsibility of companies and their managers under French law. This report was initiated based...more

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Sustainable Finance and Climate Change Risk in Financial Services - February 2020

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Financial services regulators have been particularly vocal in the last 12 months, specifically about the impact on the financial services sector as the world experiences, and attempts to respond to, climate change. Mark...more

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