July, 2013

Banking

Released on: Jul. 8, 2013

Taken from the briefing Considerations for End-Users of Derivatives recorded June, 2013.Derivatives market participants are becoming subject to a series of regulatory requirements related to clearing, trade reporting, and record-keeping. Even occasional corporate end-users of derivatives will have to prepare to comply with certain of these new obligations.In this Briefing, James Schwartz and Anna T. Pinedo of Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Matthew ...

Released on: Jul. 12, 2013

Taken from the briefing Return of Structured Finance and Residential MBS recorded June, 2013.As the U.S. capital markets continue to gain relative strength and longstanding regulatory uncertainties are resolved, ABS, MBS and covered bond issuers are increasingly inquiring about the prospects for entering these markets once again. The years since the financial crisis have brought sweeping changes in the rules affecting structured finance in the U.S., ...

Course Handbook from the program PLI's Ethics Programs: Summer 2013, held July, 2013.

From the program: Representing the Pro Bono Client: Consumer Law Basics 2013 (Free)

Recorded on: Jul. 29, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Representing the Pro Bono Client: Consumer Law Basics 2013 recorded July, 2013 in San Francisco.Lecture Topics  [01:00:00]A Primer on Automobile Fraud  [01:00:00]The topic will cover the basic concepts of the representation of consumers who may have been the victim of automobile dealership fraud/misconduct, including: Review of dealer terminology and practices Common auto dealer sales and financing scams ...

Released on: Jul. 31, 2013

Taken from the briefing Growing Criminal Risks of Intermediaries for Cross-Border Financial Crimes recorded July, 2013.In the last couple of decades the U.S. and the world have experienced growing prosecutions of intermediaries for cross-border financial crimes.   A U.S. bank was convicted by a Spanish court for moving money in the Pinochet criminal investigation instead of freezing it.  The U.S. and State of New York have brought criminal ...