Capital Markets

[Upcoming Event] Financial Regulation in the Post-Reform Era: Putting Dodd-Frank in Context

By Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy | Posted on

The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy will be hosting a lunch presentation by Eugene Ludwig on Monday, February 24, 2014.  Registration is requested.

Eugene Ludwig, Promontory Financial Group
Monday, February 24, 2014 
Boalt Hall 100; 12:45 – 1:45 pm

From the Civil War to the savings & loan meltdown, U.S. financial regulation has been shaped by cycles  of crisis and reform. What do changes like the Dodd-Frank Act mean for the evolution of the American regulatory model, and for global priorities like financial inclusion and development?

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Dodd-Frank Rules’ Impact on Seller Financing

By Manatt, Phelps and Phillips LLP | Posted on

In 2014, new rules implementing amendments to the Federal Truth in Lending Act became effective as a result of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”).

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Hedge Funds Place More Bets on Startups

By Valerie Jon Ramos, J.D. Candidate 2015 | Posted on

As of the past two years, tech startups became increasingly more attractive in the eyes of some very wealth suitors—hedge funds. 

A recent example of this attraction is Snapchat, the popular photo-messaging startup. After refusing a $3 billion dollar buyout offer from Facebook, Snapchat received $50 million in Series C funding from Coatue Management, a hedge fund.

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Europe Reaches Deal on Derivatives Trading

By Willi Künzli, LL.M. Candidate 2014 | Posted on

On January 14, the European Union’s three-branch government reached an agreement in Strasbourg, France, to regulate derivatives trading and other complex instruments.

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The Federal Reserve Approves Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan’s Capital Management Plans

By Jiarui (Tina) Guo, LL.M Candidate 2014 | Posted on

In early December, two Wall Street giants, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase, finally satisfied the Federal Reserve’s stiffer requirement with improved capital plans. The banks successfully put the matter behind them by resubmitting capital plans after the regulators found “significant weaknesses” in the ones submitted in March during a stress test. “We are pleased that the Fed determined” the bank’s stress test “process improvements met their expectations,” JPMorgan’s chief executive Jamie Dimon said in a statement.

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Volcker Rule challenged in Court: Will Regulators Accede or Demur?

By Sreelekha Haridas Maruthur, LL.M. Candidate 2014 | Posted on

The American Banker’s Association (ABA) filed a petition on December 24, 2013, in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging a provision of the recently approved final version of the Volcker Rule (the Final Rule) requiring community banks to divest their holdings in a commonly held debt instrument known as Collateralized Debt Obligation backed by Trust-Preferred Securities or TruPS-backed CDO.

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