The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has released a report entitled “The Orderly Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Under the Dodd-Frank Act.” The report examines how the FDIC could have structured an orderly resolution of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

The Financial Stability Board has released a background note which details its current thinking on the oversight and regulation of the shadow banking system.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission jointly study the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardized computer-readable algorithmic descriptions which may be used to describe complex and standardized financial derivatives, and t

In accordance with the risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010, six federal agencies are seeking public comment on a proposed rule that would require sponsors of asset-backed securities to retain at least 5 percent of the credit risk of the a