Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group

The FDIC Refinery

Wayne A. Abernathy

It was a busy day at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  The agency took...

Key Points in the Treasury's Fannie/Freddie Paper

Alex J. Pollock

The important parts of the Treasury's new paper on Fannie and Freddie reform are not...

Money and the Constitution: Money, Credit, and Interest Rates

Bert Ely

Part III

In a previous post, I explained that at this year’s National Lawyers Convention, in November,...

Of Class Actions and Usury - Shrinking Credit in the Second Circuit

Julius L. Loeser

Federal law provides that a bank extending credit is only subject to the usury laws...

Money and the Constitution: What About Inflation?

Wayne A. Abernathy

Part II

Happy to see that my colleague, Bert Ely, has started a conversation about “Money and...