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Secretary Paulson’s Update on the Financial Rescue Package
November 13, 2008
On November 12, 2008, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Jr. provided an update on the state of the financial system, the U.S. economy, and the Treasury's strategy for the ongoing implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA). Paulson warned… read more
K&L Gates: “Industry and Regulators Respond to Extraordinary Pressures on Money Market Funds”
October 07, 2008
K&L Gates' Global Financial Markets Group, a cross-disciplinary working group of K&L Gates professionals that pulls together a number of the firm’s practices, has issued the first of its series of newsletters discussing the ongoing extraordinary events in the financial markets. Though the newsletter contains… read more
SEC Launches Special Sweep Of Money Fund Holdings
October 06, 2008
Fund Action (subscription required) reported on October 3 that the a "wide ranging special sweep exam of all the paper held in money market fund portfolios has been launched by the Securities and Exchange Commission to pinpoint which funds are already in danger… read more
H.R. 1424 in a Nutshell
October 03, 2008
Stradley Ronon's John Baker has posted an excellent plain language nutshell description of the contents of the recently passed H.R. 1424, which contains the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Though the expansive H.R. 1424 deals with much more, Baker's piece concentrates almost… read more
FINRA Releases Investor Alert on Treasury’s MMMF Guarantee Program
October 03, 2008
Yesterday, FINRA released an Investor Alert, "Treasury's Guarantee Program for Money Market Mutual Funds: What You Should Know," offering plain language guidance to help investors better understand money market funds and to answer some of the questions investors may have about Treasury's guarantee… read more