Financial regulation remains front and center on the minds of attorneys in Washington D.C and on Wall Street. Many factors including the subprime crisis, the credit-default-swap implosion and the subsequent meltdown of the markets have led to great uncertainty in the regulatory landscape. The Knowledge Group is producing a 2-hour live webcast which will help attorneys understand how new regulations will affect their clients in 2009 and beyond. Among the issues covered will be: Mitigating & managing the risk of bank failure, synopsis & impact of the new government regulations, and finally a forward look at best practices for finance attorneys in 2009.
Banking and Financial Services Laws for Attorneys: A 2009 Perspective will provide a comprehensive overview and best practices framework for navigation regulatory activity in the US financial system. This is a must attend webcast for domestic & internationally focused attorneys who’s clients are banks and financial institutions that operate in the US market.
Course Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: None
Method Of Presentation: Group-Based-Internet
Developer: The Knowledge Conference
Recommended CLE/CPE Hours: 2.0
(Please note, your State Bar or Accounting Board will make the final determination with respect
to continuing education credit.)
Advance Preparation: Print and review course materials
Course Code: 093856
John Douglas
Partner, Corporate Department
Sara Kelsey
Counsel
Brian W. Smith
Partner
Stacie E. McGinn
Deputy General Counsel, Global Consumer and Small Business Banking
Featured Speakers: To Be Announced Shortly
- A Regulatory Carol: A Discussion of What Got Us to the Crisis; Where We Are Now and; Where We Are Going in the U S Regulation of Financial ServicesJohn Douglas, Partner, Corporate Department, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
- "Ghost" of Future Regulation
- Restructuring the Federal Financial Regulatory Agencies to improve supervision and regulation of all critical aspects of the US financial system.
- Establishing a Mechanism and Standard for the Regulation for Financial Activities not currently supervised/regulated.
- A Global Framework to address future financial services regulation.
- Updating the U S bank supervisory and examination process - stress testing, risk management and internal controls impacting what are permissible activities.
- Consumer Protection - Related initiatives in upcoming U S financial regulation.
Brian W. Smith, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
- The Ghost(s) of Christmas Past:
- The subprime crisis: How could a few defaulting borrowers cause so much trouble?
New Century, to American Home, to Countrywide
- The spreading doubt about financial institution balance sheets
- The liquidity crisis: Bear Sterns, Indymac, Fannie and Freddie, Lehman, AIG, Washington
Mutual, Wachovia
- The capital crisis: Citi and a host of others
- The fraud crisis: Madoff, Stanford
- The regulatory crisis: lack of understanding/knowledge or control over: risks associated with a variety of market practices; systemically important institutions; the shadow
banking system; the interconnected nature of global capital markets; and the ramifications of an ad hoc approach to problems in specific institutions.
Sara Kelsey, Counsel, WilmerHale
- The Ghost(s) of Present Credit Crisis Programs
- The present credit crisis programs fall into four major categories:
- Stabilization of the liability side of bank balance sheets;
- Temporary life support systems to maintain past credit market arrangements;
- Propping up bank capital; and
- Workout of problem assets
- The first three types of programs buy time and attempt to keep all the balls in the air. At the same time, they perpetuate many of the most serious flaws of
past business and regulatory models through their:
- lack of transparency, accountability, capital, liquidity (asset/liability mismatch), skin in the
game and risk-management, and
- too much cheap funding, leverage, off-balance sheet assets, and stress
- The programs have bought us needed time, but may, at our peril, obscure our very real need to:
- understand what went wrong and why;
- work out the underlying problem assets; and
- reform the business and regulatory models to strengthen the global financial system
- So this will not happen again
Stacie E. McGinn, Deputy General Counsel, Global Consumer and Small Business Banking, Bank of America Corporation
** Speaker Agenda to be added soon.. **
Banks & Financial Institutions :
- Financial Attorneys
- General Counsel
- CEOs and Presidents
- CFOs
- In-House Counsel
This is a must attend event for anyone interested in understanding the Banking & Financial Services Law for Attorneys.
- New guidance explained by the most qualified key leaders & experts
- Hear directly from key regulators & thought leaders
- Interact directly with panel during Q&A