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Fast Company
April 2000
Joseph Hooper |
Hardball Softball When the closing bell sounds at the New York Stock Exchange, hard-charging brokers and clerks trade their wing tips for spikes and head for the playing fields of Jersey City. Welcome to Wall Street softball, where only the ball is soft.   |
OCC Bulletin
March 10, 2000 |
Risk-Based Capital-Recourse and Direct Credit Substitutes This bulletin transmits a proposed rule that would amend the OCC's risk-based capital regulations to treat direct credit substitutes and recourse obligations consistently and would incorporate the use of credit ratings as an indicator of a bank's risk of loss... |
OCC Bulletin
March 2, 2000 |
Electronic Banking The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency seeks public comment in responding to the rapid growth of electronic commerce and the significant business opportunities that these technological developments are affording national banks consistent with safety and soundness... |
OCC Bulletin
February 16, 2000 |
Consumer Credit Reporting Practices An advisory letter to the Chief Executive Officers of financial institutions about consumer credit reporting practices alerts institutions that certain large credit card issuers are no longer reporting customer credit lines and/or high credit balances to the credit bureaus... |
OCC Bulletin
February 2, 2000 |
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act The COPPA, which is effective April 21, 2000, prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with the collection, use/or disclosure of personal information from and about children on the Internet. The COPPA and the final rule apply to national banks... |
OCC Bulletin
December 23, 1999 |
Community Development Corporations, Community Development Projects, and Other Public Welfare Investments The final rule amends Part 24, the regulation governing national bank investments designed primarily to promote the public welfare. |
OCC Bulletin
December 22, 1999 |
Bank Activities and Operations, Investment Securities, Corporate Activities A new final rule updates and clarifies the OCC's regulations regarding Bank Activities and Operations (formerly, Interpretive Rulings), Investment Securities, and Rules, Policies, and Procedures for Corporate Activities... |
OCC Bulletin
December 13, 1999 |
Interagency Guidance on Asset Securitization Activities During recent examinations, our examiners have noted an unacceptable number of national banks with risk management systems or internal control infrastructures insufficient to support the institution's securitization activities. |
OCC Bulletin
November 15, 1999 |
Risk-Based Capital Interpretations Credit Derivatives A new issuance addresses the risk-based capital treatment of certain synthetic securitization transactions involving credit derivatives. The objective of these capital interpretations is to recognize the effective transference of the economic risk of loss in these transactions... |
OCC Bulletin
October 15, 1999 |
Year 2000 Standards for Safety and Soundness for Bank Transfer Agents and Broker-Dealers New guidelines address transfer agent and broker dealer activities where Y2K readiness is important, even if the activity is not mission-critical in a particular bank... |
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