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Committee Reports
  • Financial Transactions Committee
    The Financial Transactions Committee conducts seminars for attorneys who practice in the banking and lending areas.
  • Legislative Committee
    The Legislative Committee of the Banking Law Section is focused on updating members with respect to banking legislation and new laws in the banking, financial services, and consumer finance areas.
Committee Member Articles
  • New Jersey's New Anti-Predatory Lending Law
    New Jersey's New Anti-Predatory Lending Law by Geoffrey M. Connor, Robert M. Jaworski and Leonard A. Bernstein (Reed Smith Bulletin 03-37) summarizing the provisions of the New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002
  • New Federal Preemption Regulations Level The Playing Field For National Banks
    by Jonathan L. Levin (Reed Smith Bulletin 04-01) (describing final regulations adopted by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency clarifying and confirming that the National Bank Act largely preempts state law in governing the banking activities of national banks and their operating subsidiaries).
  • 2004 Amendments Improve New Jersey Non-Prime Lending Law
    2004 Amendments Improve New Jersey Non-Prime Lending Law by Leonard A. Bernstein and Robert M. Jaworski (discussing the 2004 amendments to the New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act).
  • U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Jurisdictional Parity Between National Banks and State-Chartered Institutions
    U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Jurisdictional Parity Between National Banks and State-Chartered Institutions by Roy W. Arnold, David J. Bird and Lyle D. Washowich (Reed Smith Bulletin 06-02) (discussing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wachovia Bank National Association v. Schmidt).
  • More Marketing Compliance Obstacles: Do Not Call/Fax/Spam
    More Marketing Compliance Obstacles: Do Not Call/Fax/Spam by Robert M. Jaworski and Robert H. Jackson (summarizing the federal regulatory hurdles that providers of consumer finance products and services face when attempting to market those products and services by telephone, fax and/or e-mail and the consequences of not clearing those hurdles), published in the February 2006 issue of THE BUSINESS LAWYER.
  • New Jersey and Pennsylvania Adopt Data Security Breach Laws
    New Jersey and Pennsylvania Adopt Data Security Breach Laws by Jonathan L. Levin, Barbara S. Mishkin and Leonard A. Bernstein (Reed Smith Bulletin 06-04) (summarizing newly-enacted data security breach laws in PA and NJ).
  • Proposed Regulation R Retains Bank Securities Functions
    Proposed Regulation R Retains Bank Securities Functions by Michael E. Bleier and Byron F. Bowman (Reed Smith Bulletin 06-35) ( describing a joint proposal of the Federal Reserve Board and the SEC to clarify the securities powers of banks under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act).
  • Federal Reserve Board Acts To Bring Regulation O Into Compliance
    Federal Reserve Board Acts To Bring Regulation O Into Compliance by Michael E. Bleier and Barbara S. Mishkin (Reed Smith Bulletin 06-33) (summarizing an interim rule adopted by the FRB to eliminate previously required bank call report information and reporting of certain insider loans).
  • FINCEN Issues New Suspicious Activity Report for Depository Institution
    FINCEN Issues New Suspicious Activity Report for Depository Institution by Michael E. Bleier and William E. Pomerancz (Reed Smith Financial Services Client Alert/January 11, 2007).
  • Basel Capital Rules for Non-Basel II Organizations
    Basel Capital Rules for Non-Basel II Organizations by Michael E. Bleier (Reed Smith Bulletin 07-02) (summarizing the provisions of a notice of proposed rulemaking by the federal bank regulators to put in place an alternative to Basel I and the proposed Basel II rules to address the competitive concerns of non-Basel II banks).
  • Implications of 2006 Midterm Election Results for Financial Services Legislation
    Implications of 2006 Midterm Election Results for Financial Services Legislation by Michael E. Bleier (Reed Smith Bulletin 07-004) (discussing the possible impact of the newly-elected Democratic-controlled Congress upon financial services legislation).
  • Interagency Final Statement on Sound Practices Concerning Elevated Risk Complex Structured Finance Activities
    Interagency Final Statement on Sound Practices Concerning Elevated Risk Complex Structured Finance Activities by Kevin Hall (Reed Smith Bulletin 07-012) (discussing the new federal Interagency Final Statement issued by the federal bank regulators in conjunction with the SEC describing internal controls and risk management procedures to help financial institutions identify and manage risk arising from these types of transactions).
  • RESPA Litigation Developments - 2006
    RESPA Litigation Developments - 2006 by Robert M. Jaworski (discussing cases decided in 2006 which address issues arising under various sections of RESPA, including, specifically whether section 8(b) of RESPA prohibits the practice of marking-up or upcharging for settlement services provided by a third party), an excerpt of an article to be published in the February 2007 issue of THE BUSINESS LAWYER.
 
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