10.26.12
The MBA annual convention in Chicago earlier this week represented something of a return to the heady days prior to the global financial crisis.
08.01.12
The federal bank regulatory agencies have jointly issued notices of proposed rulemaking which would introduce sweeping new capital regulations affecting all community banks.
02.27.12
Since their arrival in the 1980s, commercial mortgage–backed securities (CMBS) have held great promise for commercial real estate borrowers.
03.29.11
As the deadline set by the Dodd-Frank Act approaches, six regulatory agencies announced that during the course of this week, all of them would consider a uniform joint regulation to implement Section 941(b) of that Act.
02.18.11
In the zeal to stall lenders’ efforts to foreclose on woefully delinquent mortgages, the plaintiff bar has put forward a variety of theories.
02.14.11
With considerable fanfare, the FDIC has passed and then quickly announced its proposed rules implementing Section 936 of the Dodd-Frank legislation—even before the other regulatory agencies could put their own imprimatur on the jointly developed proposal.