With regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 well underway, it has never been more critical for counsel and their corporate clients to have a deep understanding of the implications of these regulatory changes on the banking, securities, and financial services sectors. At Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, we've created the Dodd-Frank Manual Series to identify the issues, explore the topics, and dissect the "need-to-know" regulations. Each volume in this new series, written by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business attorney-editors, explains issues by Title of the Act providing a focused discussion and analysis of specific topics that will expedite your research, giving you the knowledge to confidently advise clients and ensure corporate compliance. Financial Stability (Titles I, II and VIII) focuses on the implementation of financial reform provisions addressing financial stability; orderly liquidation for large, failing financial institutions; and clearing and settlement activities of financial institutions. Included is analysis of the Financial Stability Council regulation on the supervision of systemically significant financial institutions and the Fed and FDIC regulations on resolution plans, aka "living wills."

" ... Analysis of Title III of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub. Law 111-203, 124 Stat 1376 (enacted on July 21, 2010) and the federal banking agency regulations implementing the law changes. Title III ... sets forth provisions ... abolishing the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and transferring its powers and authorities to the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)."--Foreword.

"Written by James Hamilton ..."--Foreword.

With regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 well underway, it has never been more critical for counsel and their corporate clients to have a deep understanding of the implications of these regulatory changes on the banking, securities, and financial services sectors. At Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, we've created the Dodd-Frank Manual Series to identify the issues, explore the topics, and dissect the "need-to-know" regulations. Each volume in this new series, written by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business attorney-editors, explains issues by Title of the Act providing a focused discussion and analysis of specific topics that will expedite your research, giving you the knowledge to confidently advise clients and ensure corporate compliance. Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance (Title IX) offers full explanation of Title IX along with the implementing regulations, forms, guidance, studies and reports. Title IX imposes regulatory reforms in the areas of: investor protection, enforcement and remedies, asset-backed securities, credit rating agencies, corporate governance, SEC funding and organization, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and municipal securities.

With regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 well underway, it has never been more critical for counsel and their corporate clients to have a deep understanding of the implications of these regulatory changes on the banking, securities, and financial services sectors. At Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, we've created the Dodd-Frank Manual Series to identify the issues, explore the topics, and dissect the "need-to-know" regulations. Each volume in this new series, written by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Attorney-Editors, explains issues by Title of the Act, providing a focused discussion and analysis of specific topics that will expedite your research, giving you the knowledge to confidently advise clients and ensure corporate compliance. This volume, Derivatives (Title VII), authored by Wolters Kluwer Attorney-Editors Lene Powell, J.D., and James Hamilton, J.D., LL.M., explains the extensive derivatives reform measures implemented by the Dodd-Frank Act and accompanying regulations. The authors analyze the impact on various entities, including swap and security-based swap dealers and major swap participants, designated contract markets, swap exchange facilities, and derivatives clearing organizations. They also cover new registration, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements; new product and entity definitions; protection of cleared swaps customer contracts and collateral; and more.

In Securities Regulation Reassessed, Paul Mahoney shows that policy responses to financial crises are broadly similar across place and time: political actors, hoping to avoid blame for a financial crisis, create a narrative of market failure, arguing that misbehavior by securities market participants, rather than prior policy errors, is the primary cause of the crisis. Politically obliged regulators craft reforms that purport to solve problems which are either non-existent or only tangentially related to the crisis; yet they increase the complexity and expense of compliance, resulting in consolidation and concentration of market share in the hands of already leading financial firms. Securities Regulation Reassessed illustrates these points primarily but not exclusively with evidence from the New Deal-era securities reforms in the United States. Against the conventional wisdom that regards the New Deal reforms as successful, Mahoney provides substantial countervailing evidence, showing instead that Congress’s diagnoses were systematically inaccurate and its remedies reduced competition in the securities industry. Looking farther into history, the work treats several key episodes prior to the New Deal, including the English financial crises of 1697 and 1720 and the "blue sky” era of the 1910s and 1920s in the United States. Finally, Mahoney considers the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 from the same analytical perspective. Mahoney finds a predictable pattern for efforts at securities reform: they require huge effort to enact, and yield little objectively measurable payoff and some objectively measurable harm.