Banking organizations looking to reduce the amount of risk-based regulatory capital required to support residential mortgage loan portfolios can use synthetic securitization to convert the capital treatment of their exposures from wholesale or retail exposures to securitization exposures. In this Legal Update, we discuss how regulatory capital requirements impact banking organizations that hold portfolios of

On April 14, 2020, the US federal banking regulators held a webinar to provide further guidance on relief from the effect of the current expected credit losses methodology (“CECL”) on regulatory capital. This guidance was intended to clarify the interaction between two recently issued rules (the 2019 CECL rule and the 2020 CECL interim final

The disruptions in economic conditions caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are reaching the commercial paper and longer term debt capital  markets.  The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) has already set into motion three separate facilities as part of its effort to facilitate credit and help alleviate collateral volatility

On January 30, 2020, five federal financial regulatory agencies published the long awaited notice of proposed rulemaking (the “NPR”) to revise certain aspects of the Volcker Rule (Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act) with respect to the treatment of covered funds.  The NPR follows over 2 ½ years of the agencies’ consideration of changes to the Volcker Rule, which was originally prompted by the June 2017 Treasury Report that solicited changes to ease the compliance burden on banks.  The NPR includes several changes
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