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Weather & Climate Risk Management Part III: Regulation of Weather Risk Management Products

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Are there differences in the way in which derivatives and insurance contracts are regulated? Yes. Weather derivatives and insurance contracts are subject to totally different regulatory regimes. Derivatives are subject to the...more

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CFTC Year in Review: 23 Takeaways From 2023 and Predictions for 2024

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At an industry event in early 2023, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) Chairman Rostin Behnam set out a comprehensive agenda to include nearly three dozen rulemaking proposals as well as “business...more

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CFTC’s Enforcement Division Releases 2019 Annual Report

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The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement (Division) released its Annual Report on November 25, 2019, summarizing the Division’s activities over the past year.1 In FY 2019, the CFTC filed 69 enforcement actions, down from 83 in FY...more

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Treasury’s Third Report on Financial System Regulation Focuses on the Asset Management and Insurance Industries

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) recently released a report examining the regulatory framework for the asset management and insurance industries (Report). The Report is the third in a series of four reports that...more

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Historic Risk Management Rules and Practices Go Live on March 1, 2017 in Leading Markets

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For the first time in the history of derivatives, regulators in leading markets will require assets to collateralize many derivatives which are not settled in a regulated clearinghouse. It is not possible to overstate...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - The CFPB Publishes Final Rule for Prepaid Accounts - On October 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "CFPB") finalized comprehensive consumer protections for...more

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Dodd-Frank at 4: Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here? As we mark another milestone in regulatory reform with the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, it strikes us that although most studies required to be undertaken by the Act...more

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"Assessing the Impact of Post-Financial Crisis Regulation"

The financial crisis of 2008 demonstrated that the then-existing financial regulatory system was in need of substantial repair. By any measure, the financial regulatory reform that has followed has been extensive. In areas...more

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Summary of the Volcker Rule

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On December 10, 2013, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity...more

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Imminent Dodd-Frank Compliance Issues for Users of Swaps and Derivatives

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Implementation of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) affecting users of swaps and derivatives has been moving forward. Numerous rules of the Commodity Futures...more

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