Other Finance
This is FindLaw’s collection of Finance articles that do not fit neatly into a single category, part of the Finance section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Here you will find important information regarding everything from legal insurance plans, lender liability and even an update summarizing the key provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act as it relates to Banking Industry. If you are interested in how to shop for the best mortgage, we’ve got that, too. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
Finance
Other Finance Articles
-
Countdown on Regulation B: New Challenges for Banks
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued proposed Regulation B to implement the bank exemptions from securities broker regulation provided by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999. Regulation B supercedes the SEC's final interim rules ...
Read More » -
Credit Card Processing During Bankruptcy: Forewarned is Forearmed
It is often suggested that the success of a chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding has more to do with the events and circumstances leading up to the bankruptcy filing than the post-petition conduct of the debtor, its creditors or the other parties in ...
Read More » -
Cross-Stream Guaranty Found To Be Fraudulent Conveyance
Intercorporate guarantees are common practice for most commercial lenders. Intercorporate guarantees fall into three types: Up-stream guarantees (the subsidiary guaranties the parent's debt); down-stream guarantees (the parent guaranties the ...
Read More » -
IRS Issues Final and Proposed Regulations on Loans From Qualified Employer Plans
The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has issued important guidance, in the form of final and proposed regulations, concerning loans from qualified retirement plans to plan participants and beneficiaries. In general, an amount received by a ...
Read More » -
Developments in Canadian Asset Securitization
The Canadian securitization market has continued to mature in 2004. Evidence of the further development of the market included a number of new entrants into the marketplace as well as a couple of firsts from a transaction standpoint. In 2004 ...
Read More » -
Fact Sheet: National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund
The National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) is the federal fund created by Congress in 1970 to insure member's deposits in credit unions up to the $100,000 federal limit. Administered by the National Credit Union Administration, the ...
Read More » -
Federal and State Regulation of Securities Offerings
On August 22, 1997 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the "Board") announced final regulations (effective October 31, 1997) which, among other things, remove three "prudential limits" (often referred to as "firewalls") which have ...
Read More » -
Federal Reserve Board Interpretation Letter
January 21, 1997 Chip Trimmier, Esq. Trimmier Law Firm, P.C. P.O. Box 18885 West Palm Beach, FL 33416 Dear Mr. Trimmier: This is in response to your letter of November 5, 1996 to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta asking six questions regarding ...
Read More » -
Federal Trade Commission Formal Interpretation Concerning Acquisitions by Certain Bank Holding Companies Under 16 C.F.R. 803.30
Commission staff have recently received several requests for interpretation of the exemption provided by ' 7A(c)(8) of the Clayton Act ("Act"), 15 U.S.C. ' 18a(c)(8), and ' 802.8 of the premerger notification rules ("rules"), 16 CFR ' 802.8, which ...
Read More » -
FTC Staff Opinion Letter: Fair Credit Reporting Act Section 603(d)(1)(A)
Division of Financial Practices October 27, 1998 The Reverend John C. Tabler 30 Bannington Drive Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20774 Section 603(d)(1)(A) of the Fair Credit Reporting ActDear Reverend Tabler: This letter responds to your letter of June ...
Read More »