Latest Dodd-Frank Posts
CFTC Schedules Conference on Regulatory Treatment of Forward Contracts with Embedded Volumetric Optionality
Energy The CFTC will hold a public conference on Thursday April 3, 2014, to discuss end-user issues with the Dodd-Frank Act, including the appropriate regulatory treatment of forward contracts with embedded volumetric optionality. Identifying such contracts has generated considerable confusion and numerous requests from the energy industry for the CFTC to clarify. The agenda for the […] Read more →
Dodd-Frank Hammers Small Banks
Banking A new paper suggests that Dodd-Frank significantly affects small banks and their customers. A large majority of respondents viewed Dodd-Frank as more burdensome than the Bank... Read more →
CFTC & FERC Take Steps to Implement Information Sharing MOU
Derivatives, Energy Today the CFTC and FERC announced the initial transmission of market data under the recently adopted CFTC-FERC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for use in analyzing market... Read more →
Private Companies Can Have SOX Whistleblowers Too
Employment, Litigation, Public Companies and Securities Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, codified at 18 U.SC. §1514A provides in part that: “No [public] company . . . , or any officer, employee, contractor, subcontractor, or... Read more →