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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced its final rule amending the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) and Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) programs to...more
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Regulatory Developments - FinCEN Issues NPRM Regarding Access to Beneficial Ownership Information and Related Safeguards - On December 15, FinCEN issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would implement...more
Final Rule - On December 16, 2022, the Federal Reserve Board adopted the final rule (the “Final Rule”)1 implementing the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “Libor Act”), which establishes benchmark replacements for...more
On December 16, 2022, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) adopted a final rule (the “Final Rule”) to implement the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “LIBOR Act”). The Final Rule follows...more
The Federal Reserve Board issued a final rule last week that establishes default rules for benchmark replacements in certain contracts that use the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as a reference rate. LIBOR will be...more
On August 12, 2022, the CFTC issued a final rule modifying its clearing requirement for interest rate swaps (“IRS”). ...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new rule to increase market transparency regarding short selling and extended the comment period for its proposed rule requiring reporting on...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) has issued final regulations (Final Regulations) to facilitate the transition away from Libor (the London Interbank Offered Rate) in the consumer credit market and to...more
In This Issue. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released updated COVID-19 vaccine guidelines for employers. Meanwhile, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) remained busy...more
On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more
On January 22, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) published its final rule (“Final Rule”) revising and modernizing its regulations related to brokered deposits and the interest rate restrictions that...more
In the News. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) granted a no-action letter (NAL) regarding a proposed small-dollar credit product and sought comment on the CFPB’s plan to study how consumers locate, comprehend...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a final rule on October 27 that determines when a national bank or federal savings association (bank) makes a loan and is the “true lender” in the context of a...more
Recent changes to the Volcker Rule, which become effective October 1, 2020, will permit banks and their affiliates (for convenience, “banks”) to sponsor credit funds, whose primary assets are loans and other debt instruments...more
At long last, the FDIC has issued its final rule codifying the “valid when made” doctrine. The rule was finalized on June 25, 2020, and clarifies that the interest rate lawfully assessed by an originating depository...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) adopted a final rule on June 2, 2020 that clarifies that when a bank transfers a loan, the interest permissible before the transfer continues to be permissible after the...more
On June 1, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) released a final rule on permissible interest on loans that are sold, assigned, or transferred, and effectively reversed the Second Circuit’s 2015...more
On May 29, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”) issued a final rule (the “Rule”) confirming the validity of interest rates on bank loans transferred to third parties, including fintech affiliates....more
OCC and FDIC Propose Interest Rate Fix for Loans Transferred to Non-Banks - The FDIC and OCC have separately proposed rules that would codify the “valid-when-made” doctrine and clarify that when a bank sells, assigns, or...more
The National Credit Union Administration has published a final rule in the Federal Register that amend the NCUA’s general lending rule to provide federal credit unions (FCU) with a second option for offering “payday...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) have issued final regulations that address amendments to the rules for discounting unpaid losses pursuant to Section 846 under the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
June Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts The June § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently published its Final Rule amending the Military Lending Act’s (MLA) implementing regulation. The MLA, passed by Congress in 2006, provides active duty service members and their...more