Collateralized Debt Obligations News Banks' Suit Tests Limits of Resisting Volcker Rule By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN and PETER EAVIS Banks are testing the legal climate by challenging an obscure provision of the Volcker Rule that affects mostly small banks, for relatively small amounts of money. December 24, 2013, Tuesday Banking Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Volcker Rule By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN The American Bankers Association, an industry trade group, is threatening to take regulators to court over how the Volcker Rule would affect community banks. December 23, 2013, Monday Volcker Rule Quickly Hits Utah Bank Zions Bancorporation says it is taking a charge of $387 million to rid itself of a sizable portfolio of trust-preferred collateralized debt obligations and other C.D.O.’s. December 16, 2013, Monday Bank of America to Pay $131.8 Million Penalty in Mortgage Deals The settlement stems from a S.E.C. inquiry into two complex mortgage securities that the bank’s Merrill Lynch division sold before the financial crisis. December 12, 2013, Thursday
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Glass-Steagall Act (1933) News Adapted from an article in the Law Library. The Glass-Steagall Act, also known as the Banking Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 162), was passed by Congress in 1933 and prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business. It was enacted as an emergency response to the failure of nearly 5,000 banks during the Great Depression. The act was originally part of President Franklin D. Beginning in the 1900s, commercial banks established security affiliates that floated bond issues and underwrote corporate stock issues. As a result of the bank closings and the already devastated economy, public confidence in the U.S. financial structure was low. Investment banking consists mostly of securities underwriting and related activities; making a market in securities; and setting up corporate mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. The Glass-Steagall Act restored public confidence in banking practices during the Great Depression.
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The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) Los 'Papeles del Paraíso' revelan secretos de la élite mundial Una importante filtración de 13,4 millones de archivos revelan las formas en que los ricos y poderosos del mundo protegen su riqueza usando una red de cuentas extraterritoriales. Los materiales conocidos como 'Papeles del paraíso' comprometerían a empresas rectoras de todo el mundo, políticos, jefes de Estado, personas prominentes del mundo del espectáculo y de los deportes, que, presuntamente, protegieron su riqueza en paraísos fiscales secretos, según indica el Consorcio Internacional de Periodistas de Investigación (CIPI). Esta asociación, que reúne a más de 200 de periodistas de investigación de 70 países, asegura haber obtenido los datos de servicios 'offshore' y los registros de compañías de 19 paraísos fiscales. Varios medios internacionales, incluido el diario alemán 'Süddeutsche Zeitung', junto con 'The Guardian', BBC o el 'The New York Times', declara haber colaborado con esta organización y haber verificado la autenticad de los documentos obtenidos. El 'Círculo mágico offshore'