On September 11, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted, in substantially the form it had proposed, amendments to the requirements for statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants provide to investors.
The rules rescind Industry Guide 3, Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies (Guide 3); codify certain Guide 3 disclosures…
Is 100% consent of the holders required to change the interest rate of an outstanding LIBOR floating rate note? Many practitioners would say yes, but we examine another approach in our article “Consent Solicitations: Challenging Orthodoxies”, published in this month’s REVERSEinquiries newsletter.
Medium-term note (“MTN”) programs enable companies to offer and sell a wide range of debt securities, which may have similar or different terms, on a periodic and/or continuous basis, by using pre-agreed offering and distribution documents and a simplified clearing process. With an MTN program, the issuer is able to use streamlined documentation for each…
This market trends article examines recent trends regarding medium-term note programs (MTN programs), providing an overview of the market in 2019 and 2020 with a focus on general deal structure and process, recent deal terms, and disclosure trends. Financial service companies, such as bank holding companies, continued to use medium-term note programs as their vehicles…
Section 926 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd Frank”) requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to adopt rules that would make the exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) provided by Rule 506 of Regulation D thereof unavailable for any securities offering in which certain…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) recently released Regulatory Notice 20-10, which discusses the recent changes to Rule 5110 (Corporate Financing Rule – Underwriting Terms and Arrangements) (the “Rule”), the main FINRA rule regarding compensation in securities offerings.
Read our Legal Update here.
This article discusses the public statement dated July 12, 2019, made by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance, Investment Management and Trading and Markets, and the Office of the Chief Accountant, encouraging market participants to begin the transition away from U.S. dollar LIBOR, which is expected to cease publication in 2021.…
This market trends article examines recent trends regarding medium-term note programs (MTN programs), providing an overview of the market in 2018 and 2019 with a focus on general deal structure and process, recent deal terms, and disclosure trends. Financial service companies, such as bank holding companies, continued to use medium-term note programs as their vehicles…
On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted Regulation Best Interest (Rule 15l-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act)), which requires broker-dealers and their associated persons who are natural persons to act in the best interest of their retail customers when making a recommendation. The SEC also adopted Form…
The Securities and Exchange Commission posted an Open Meeting Agenda for June 5, 2019, when the Commission will vote on whether to adopt Regulation Best Interest, the related Form CRS Relationship Summary and a standard of conduct for registered investment advisers (“RIAs”). The agenda is available at: https://www.sec.gov/news/openmeetings/2019/agenda060519.htm. It is not known whether the…
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