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FCA Consulting on Proposed Changes to the Derivatives Trading Obligation

Jones Day on 8/15/2024

The Background: In 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") and HM Treasury began consulting on the Wholesale Markets Review (the "Review"), a broad review of the structure, functioning, and regulation of secondary...more

Securities and markets regulatory news, November 2020

Hogan Lovells on 11/10/2020

ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol - The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has published the ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol. Our separate client alert, ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol: What...more

European leveraged finance: A bifurcated balancing act: Data dive: European leveraged finance 2020

White & Case LLP on 2/19/2020

- The covenant-lite share of European institutional loan issuance in 2019 reached 92 per cent - European leveraged loan issuance in 2019 was down slightly on the previous year to €209.1 billion - High yield bond...more

Financial Daily Dose 1.30.2020 | Top Story: Facebook Pays $550 Million to Resolve Privacy Class Action Over Use of Facial...

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/30/2020

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming that Zuck & Co.’s use of facial recognition technology violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law. Though the settlement is little more than “a...more

Strong Finish to 2019 Offers Promising 2020 for US and European High-Yield Markets

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/23/2020

In 2019, a wave of bond-to-bond refinancings, as well as significant bank and term loan-to-bond refinancings, punctuated a strong year for debt financings after a slow first quarter. Throughout last year, debt investors...more

Financial Daily Dose 1.10.2020 | Top Story: Ransomware Attack on Travelex Sows Chaos Across Foreign Exchange Sector

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/10/2020

Hackers who targeted airport currency exchange mainstay Travelex in a ransomware attack on New Year’s Eve have alerted British media that they possess 5 GB of sensitive customer data from the company “since gaining access to...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.6.2019 | Top Story: Drug Distributors and Maker in Talks for Multi-billion-dollar Opioid Litigation...

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/16/2019

A group of three major drug distributors—McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health—are in the midst of talks with representatives of state and local governments who have brought more than 2000 opioid-related lawsuits...more

Your Daily Dose Of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 5/3/2019

We were pretty sure that the Fed would keep interest rates steady as it wrapped its Open Market Committee meetings yesterday, and Fed Chair Powell delivered on that expectation. He also admitted that the same lack of...more

Ten years on: The surprising resilience of European leveraged finance: The market pauses for breath in 2018

White & Case LLP on 2/13/2019

• In Europe, leveraged loan issuance is down 28 per cent year-on-year to €202.5 billion in 2018, but is up on all years between 2014 and 2016 • High yield bond issuance is down 37 per cent year-on-year • Leveraged loans...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/31/2019

The Fed wrapped its January meetings yesterday with the expected news that it would leave the benchmark interest rate unchanged and the less-guaranteed report that it was hitting the pause button on future rate hikes (aka,...more

It’s 2019 – Take Courage!

Dechert LLP on 1/14/2019

It’s 2019. Nothing really terrible or shocking has happened yet…at least by the standards of December. But it’s early yet. As a card-carrying member of the commentariat, I could not possibly pass up the opportunity to...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/16/2018

A no-deal Brexit wouldn’t merely be a disaster for PM May’s government. It would wreak definite havoc on UK-based companies (and those that do big business there). Here’s what they’re sweating at the moment....more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/29/2018

U.S. Financial Industry Developments - ISDA, AFME, ICMA, SIFMA and SIFMA AMG Publish Global Benchmark Report - The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Association of Financial Markets in Europe...more

Proskauer’s Second Annual Survey on Trends in Private Credit Markets

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/18/2018

We are delighted to share with you the results from our second annual Trends in Private Credit survey. This year’s survey was conducted via web from January 9th to February 9th 2018. In this report, we will share...more

CFTC Updates on Virtual Currency Regulation, Alternatives to Libor and Fallout From Brexit

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/31/2018

In 2017, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo made clear he will strive to improve, not abolish, many reforms the CFTC adopted to implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s mandate for new...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/14/2017

As widely expected, the Fed affirmed the general strength of the US economy today by raising the benchmark interest rate again today—the 5th raise since the financial crisis....more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/15/2017

Financial transaction provider Euronet Worldwide’s made an unsolicited bid to acquire MoneyGram for about $1 billion in cash, throwing a wrench into Ant Financial’s plan to use MG as a way to break into the US market and...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/3/2016

Soooooo . . . about that whole Brexit thing. A UK High Court has ruled that Britain’s EU withdrawal cannot move forward without the approval of Parliament, setting off more uncertainty and what’s expected to be a series of...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 7.6.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/6/2016

How often are we going to be hearing about Brexit aftershocks? I’d expect you better get used to it. Today’s edition: two other real estate funds (these run by Aviva ad M&G) have joined Standard Life in freezing withdrawals...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 7.1.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/1/2016

Yesterday, Hershey rejected Kraft spinoff Mondelez’s $23 billion takeover offer, but the dealmaking efforts may not be over. The success of any increased offer lies in the hands of the Hershey Trust Company, a charitable...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.22.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/22/2016

Elon Musk is curing what ails SolarCity by having his Tesla motors company buy it—a move he’s called “obvious” [though others disagree] but which will leave him personally exposed to margin calls if the stock price for the...more

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