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Cadwalader's financial services team invites you to join us for a four-part series focused on capital relief trades. We'll discuss the nuts and bolts of these transactions, which a growing number of U.S. banks are exploring to optimize regulatory capital and manage credit risk, including capital benefits, structural considerations and other legal and regulatory issues.
Our first installment, "CRT Overview and Regulatory Capital Basics," was streamed on June 22nd. Watch the replay here.
Financial Services partners Jed Miller, Daniel Meade and Ivan Loncar discussed:
- What is bank regulatory capital?
- What are capital relief trades?
- How can capital relief trades be used by banks to optimize regulatory capital?
- What are common types of capital relief trades?
Part II of our series, Unpacking Regulation Q: CRT Structuring, was streamed on June 29. Watch the replay here.
Financial Services partners Jed Miller, Daniel Meade and Ivan Loncar discussed:
- What types of risk-weighted assets can benefit from a capital relief trade?
- What terms must a capital relief trade have in order to offer capital relief?
- What terms must a capital relief trade not have?
- How should a bank invest proceeds from the issuance of credit-linked notes?
Part III of our series, U.S. Legal and Regulatory Considerations, was streamed on July 13. Watch the replay here.
Financial Services partners Jed Miller, Daniel Meade and Ivan Loncar discussed:
- Securities Laws (Disclosure)
- Risk Retention
- Tax
- Swap Regulation
- Commodity Pool
- Insurance Regulation
- Volcker Rule
- Regulation W
- Bank Holding Company Act
Part IV of our series, CRT Structuring in the United Kingdom and EU, was streamed on August 10. Watch the replay here.
Capital Markets partner Nick Shiren and special counsel Assia Damianova discussed:
- Applicable rules - Capital Requirements Regulation and the EU bank capital rules
- Securitisation Regulation and how to report and retain risk
- Impact of EMIR
- Examples of structuring issues in European deals