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Vol. 94, Nos. 1-26, pp. 1-1312, and Vol. 95, Nos. 1-23, pp. 1-1148
Jan. 5 -- Dec. 21, 2010

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    IASB
    ICELAND
      – Collapse of national economy, impact of findings of comprehensive report, 94:824
      – EU accession, European Comm'n support despite unresolved bank dispute, 94:443; rejection of bank compensation plan no hindrance to membership, 94:535
    IDAHO
      – Luxury resort property owners' RICO class action against Credit Suisse Bank and Cushman and Wakefield (D. Idaho), 94:28
    IDENTITY THEFT
      – FACT Act implementation, FTC report to House panel, 94:617
      – Statistics, think tank report for 2009, 94:323
    IFC
    ILLINOIS
      – Credit cards, privacy restrictions on use of college students' personal information for marketing purposes, 94:19
      – Failed banks
        – – Amcore Bank of Rockford, 94:807
        – – Arcola Homestead Savings Bank of Arcola, 94:1130
        – – Bank of Ill., 94:472
        – – Broadway Bank of Chicago, 94:807
        – – Citizens Bank & Trust of Chicago, 94:807
        – – Corus Bank, N.A., of Chicago, FDIC note offering closed, 94:800
        – – First Suburban Natl. Bank in Maywood, 95:731
        – – George Washington Savings Bank in Orland Park, 94:420
        – – Independent Bankers' Bank of Springfield, purchase and assumption agreement, 94:108
        – – Lincoln Park Savings Bank of Chicago, 94:807
        – – New Century Bank of Chicago, 94:807
        – – Palos Bank and Trust, Palos Heights, 95:301
        – – Peotone Bank and Trust in Peotone, 94:807
        – – Ravenswood Bank in Chicago, 95:262
        – – ShoreBank in Chicago, 95:301
        – – Town Community Bank and Trust of Antioch, 94:147
        – – Wheatland Bank in Naperville, 94:807
      – Fair lending, anti-predatory lending measures, state database program expansion, 94:67
      – Foreclosure, mandatory mediation, state high court unveils innovative program for helping delinquent borrowers, 94:1193
      – Mortgages, alleged discriminatory lending practices against minority borrowers by Countrywide Financial (Ill. Cir. Ct.), 95:23
      – Payday lenders and installment loan firms, interest rate caps measure, 94:1253
    INDIA
      – Benchmarking system for bank lending, new transparency proposal, 94:381
    INDIANA
      – Auction rate securities, Stifel Nicolaus buyback agreement with state regulators, 94:25
      – Mortgages, voluntary 5-star program, state measure, 94:605
    INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS (IRAs)
      – Automatic deductions
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 6099, S 3760
      – Expansion of coverage, Obama administration plans for automatic, payroll-based accounts, 94:518
      – H&R Block settles consolidated class action over express accounts (W.D. Mo.), 94:73
      – Noncompliance with requirements, federal government losses, 94:925
    INSURANCE
      – AIG bailout
        – – Bernanke request for GAO review of credit provided by FRB, 94:137
        – – Congressional investigation into FRB N.Y. role, 94:61
        – – Congressional Oversight Panel, FRB too quick in dismissing private sector solution proposals, report, 94:1189
        – – Executive compensation, Grassley (R-Iowa) request for information on timing of bonuses, 94:278
        – – Financial Crisis Inquiry Comm'n, former OTS official testimony on effective regulation beforehand, 95:10
        – – GAO review of all federal assistance requested by Towns (D-NY) and Cummings (D-Md), 94:136
        – – Geithner testimony before House Oversight Comm., 94:217
        – – Loan paydown, FRB N.Y. revolving credit facility balance transaction, 95:362
        – – Losses underreported by manipulating Treasury Dep't methodology for valuing shares, SIGTARP report, 95:782
        – – Repayment plans, announcement by insurance firm, 95:567; increased Treasury Dep't stake in bailed-out insurance firm, 95:842
        – – SEC investigation request for alleged FRB N.Y. disclosure advice, 94:105
        – – Viability, further federal aid likely not necessary, 94:1084
      – Credit score use to determine risk, Democrat criticism of industry practice, 94:969
      – Debt cancellation insurance, Sky Bank TILA plaintiffs must show reliance on flawed financial disclosure forms (3d Cir.), 94:69
      – Mortgage insurance
        – – FHA mutual fund, report to Congress, second quarter 2010, 95:257
        – – Premiums, authorization of FHA increases
          See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 5981
      – Oversight of sector
        – – Nonadmitted insurance market, financial regulatory reform provisions
          See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4173
        – – Nonregulated entities, supervisors' request for coordinated loophole-closing action, 94:771
        – – OECD call for stronger global surveillance and information exchange, 94:939
      – Reporting requirements, analyst dissatisfaction with current industry framework, 94:109
      – State exchange modeled after Lloyd's of London, N.Y. governor proposal, 94:67
      – Taxation, formal guidance on claims for dividends-received deductions under consideration, 94:1140
      – Uncleared swaps transactions, ISDA recommendations for multiple options for segregating funds, 95:683
    INTEREST RATES
      – Consumer savings products, National Pricing Indicators, Market Rates Insight Report, July 2010, 95:316; Aug. 2010, 95:349
      – Credit cards
        – – Broker-dealers, state official request for information, 94:106; recent changes to cardholder agreements also under scrutiny, 94:228
        – – Regulation Z, Solicitor General input on creditor requirements for default-related increases (U.S., brief requested), 94:236
        – – Temporary income tax deduction
          See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4562
      – European Central Bank actions
        – – Gradual withdrawal of emergency liquidity support, 94:486
        – – Maintenance at one percent while welcoming widespread bank stress tests, 95:71
        – – Unchanged interest rates, 95:1033
      – Federal funds
        – – FRB policymaking meeting, April 28 rate, 94:876
        – – Near-zero target rate, continued maintenance by FRB could cause bubbles, Analysis and Perspective, 94:1152
      – Mortgages, Freddie Mac survey, week ended Jan. 14, 2010, 94:156; week ended Feb. 4, 94:327; week ended March 4, 94:524; week ended March 11, 94:574; week ended March 18, 94:616; week ended April 29, 94:929; week ended May 13, 94:1038; week ended May 27, 94:1139; week ended July 8, 95:107; week ended July 29, 95:224
      – Outlook 2010, 94:40
      – Reciprocal currency swaps, FRB reserve contracts, 94:963
      – Risk management, interest rate risks, FFIEC expanded guidance, 94:56
      – Taxation, carried interest, Hill Watch, 94:712
    INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD (IASB)
      – Hooervorst as chairman succeeding Tweedie, 95:705
      – Koenig appointment as board member, 94:293
      – Mackintosh as board vice chairman, 95:705
      – Scott appointment as board member, 94:293
    INTERNATIONAL BANKING AND FINANCE
      – Appointments and personnel changes, Krasik movement from BNY Mellon to Reed Smith, 95:415
      – Capital flows to emerging market countries, IIF forecast, 95:645
      – Cross-border lending by internationally active banks, BIS statistics, third quarter 2009, 94:240; fourth quarter 2009, 94:1204; first quarter 2010, 95:175; second quarter 2010, 95:1080
      – Deposit accounts, World Bank survey, 2009 report, 95:475
      – Failed banks
        – – IMF chief Strauss-Kahn remarks on crisis management, oversight, and resolution authority, 94:582
        – – United Commercial Bank of San Francisco, FDIC and China Banking Regulatory Comm'n cross-border resolution agreement, 94:1079
      – G-20 campaign on regulation and supervision of banking, securities, and insurance sectors, possibility of sanctions, 94:501
      – Global financial crisis
        – – Challenging environment in 2010, federal and state regulator remarks, 94:466
        – – Cooperation on reform necessary for sustained recovery, banking group remarks, 94:770
        – – Declining demand for government support of banking sector, BIS report, 94:436
        – – Recovery slow and fragile due to failure to complete reforms, ECB official remarks, 94:531
      – Global Financial Stability Report, IMF report on 2007-2010 bank write-downs, 95:644
      – Infrastructure, short-term financing, lack of demand, 95:1034
      – Interest rates on borrowed money, BIS statistics, fourth quarter 2009, 94:1205; first quarter 2010, 94:1261
      – Long-term issues, Committee on Global Financial System Study Group report, 95:234
      – Outlook 2010, Special Report, 94:169
      – Profits in global banking sector, BIS doubts in annual report, 94:1284
      – Resolution authority, FDIC-Bank of England MOU, 94:164
      – Sanction clauses in trade-related financial products, ICC guidelines on risk, 94:630
      – SWIFT transfers
      – Terrorism, Bank Melli Iran's blocked assets in N.Y. subject to attachment by relatives of suicide bombing victim under TRIA (2d Cir.), 95:27
      – Trade finance, ICC remarks about strategic treatment by bank regulators, 94:1210
    INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
      – European Monetary Union, efforts to stabilize euro with trillion dollar plan, 94:897; turmoil potentially damaging to U.S. economy, 94:1021; IMF suggests swift action, 94:1212
      – Lending instruments, likely future IMF discussion of precautionary credits and multi-country loans, 95:35
    INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION (IFC)
      – Bad loans from Central and Eastern European banks, investment announcement, 94:165
    INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL STANDARDS
      – FSB framework for strengthened adherence, 94:52
    INTERNATIONAL TAX
      – Bank taxes, IMF recommendations for financial stability levy and financial activities levy, 95:32
      – Cross-border cooperation treaty between Germany and Switzerland, continuation of negotiations despite dispute over stolen bank data, 94:291
      – Disclosure under FATCA, Canadian bank petition for excemption, 95:331
      – Double-tax risk linked to regulatory and tax authority conflicts, financial industry executive remarks to OECD, 95:948
      – Enforcement policy, IRS priority list, 95:1027
      – Hill Watch, 94:712
      – Permanent establishment through agency relationships, IRS official remarks, 94:1198
      – Unified information reporting framework, FATCA possible foundation, Shulman remarks, 94:1179; Musher remarks on IRS guidance priorities, 94:1297
    INTERNATIONAL TRADE
      – Small business stimulus, Senate actions
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 2862
    INTERNET
      – CARD Act, FRB interactive consumer website, 94:353
      – E-Apps, Federal Reserve system for financial institutions to submit regulatory filings, 94:233
      – Gambling services operating in U.S.
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2267, HR 2268
      – Securities brokers, FINRA proposal on expansion of information publicly available online, 94:364
    INVESTIGATIONS
      – AIG bailout
        – – Bernanke request for GAO review of credit provided by FRB, 94:137
        – – Congressional Oversight Panel, FRB too quick in dismissing private sector solution proposals, report, 94:1189
        – – Congressional probe into FRB N.Y. role, 94:61
        – – Executive compensation, Grassley (R-Iowa) request for information on timing of bonuses, 94:278
        – – GAO review of all federal assistance requested by Towns (D-NY) and Cummings (D-Md), 94:136
        – – Geithner testimony before House Oversight Comm., 94:217
        – – SEC investigation request for alleged FRB N.Y. disclosure advice, 94:105
      – Bear Stearns collapse
        – – Market forces, not CDO marks, as cause, Goldman Sachs statement to FCIC, 95:1113
        – – Rumors as trigger for loss of investor confidence, former executives' comments, 94:915
      – Financial Crisis Inquiry Comm'n
        – – AIG oversight, former OTS official testimony on effective regulation beforehand, 95:10
        – – Citigroup missteps, questioning of former top executives, 94:687
        – – Executives from top financial institutions on list of witnesses for first hearing, 94:14
        – – Final report, delay in completion, 95:922
        – – Goldman Sachs, subpoena after firm ignored initial request for documents and interviews, 94:1192; correction, 94:1253; shorting of collateralized debt obligations but no betting against clients, Cohn testimony, 95:11
        – – GSE collapse, conflicting pressures of affordable housing goals and profits for investors, Mudd and Levin remarks, 94:686
        – – Mortgage underwriting, better oversight recommendations including uniform minimum standards, Dugan remarks, 94:685
        – – Subprime mortgage loan securitization, Greenspan defense of FRB actions, 94:689
      – Goldman Sachs, House Oversight Comm. investigation of equity purchases by former FRB N.Y. chair, 94:551
      – KeyCorp worker lacks standing to bring fiduciary breach claims (N.D. Ohio), 95:327
      – Senate Permanent Subcomm., causes of financial crisis, focus on case studies and probes of records, 94:740
      – Tax havens, disclosure of interests in foreign accounts, DOJ investigation of HSBC account holders, 95:49; DOJ letters likely precursor of trouble for bank, 95:145
    INVESTING
      – Corporate governance issues
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2861, HR 3272, HR 3351
      – Duty of trustees when plan-mandated stock drops in value (S.D.N.Y.), 94:377
      – EU debate over Alternative Investment Fund Directive, talks deadlocked over hedge funds and private equity funds, 94:1310; proposals for directive still controversial, 95:329
      – Executive compensation, exclusion of shareholder proposals, SEC no-action letters for BoA and JPMorgan Chase, 94:523
      – Fiduciary breach claims under ERISA
        – – Dismissal of suit due to failure by bank workers to exhaust administrative remedies before filing (M.D. Fla.), 94:1198
        – – Fannie Mae, preliminary approval to settlement of employer stock-drop suit (D.D.C.), 94:1199
      – Financial regulatory system overhaul, investor advocates urge retention of broker-dealer exemption from fiduciary standard, 94:279
      – Lybecker and Moynihan join Perkins Cole, 95:945
      – PPIP, fund managers seeking transfer of portfolio to new firm, 94:58
      – Registration of advisers with SEC, Hill Watch, 94:712
      – Stock-drop claims, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase court decisions, debate between DOL official and employee benefits practitioners, 94:765
    IRAN
      – Hawala owner sentence for violations of trade embargo (S.D.N.Y.), 95:325
      – Terrorism, Bank Melli Iran's blocked assets in N.Y. subject to attachment by relatives of suicide bombing victim under TRIA (2d Cir.), 95:27
      – UN sanctions, Dubai financial services authority officials' remarks on enforcement, 95:35
      – U.S. sanctions, Treasury Dep't final implementation rule, 95:332
    IRELAND
      – Bad bank, European Comm'n approval of creation under EU state aid rules, 94:442
      – Bailouts
        – – Anglo Irish Bank, European Comm'n temporary plan, 94:670; approval of new plan, 95:330; European Comm'n cautious approval to restructuring plan, 95:423; announcement of aid amount, 95:590
        – – Bank of Ireland, European Comm'n approval of restructuring plan, 95:121
        – – Contingency plan, euro zone finance ministers approve emergency funds, 95:946
        – – Recapitalization of banking sector, government set-aside, 95:985; EU agreement on terms, 95:1085
      – Credit guarantee extension from EU through end of 2010, 95:537
    ITALY
      – Bad loans, government change to ratio allowed for deductions, 95:949
      – Bank tax, finance minister push for disincentives for speculation, 95:857
      – Consumer protection, class action regarding overcharging overdrawn customers, 94:78
      – Derivatives, Milan bankers and city officials allegedly involved in sale of fraudulent investment vehicles, 94:575
      – Tax breaks for banks, ECJ ruling on illegal state aid, 95:72

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