US Financial Stability Oversight Council Amends Procedures for Hearings Conducted Under the Dodd-Frank Act

The U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council approved certain amendments to its procedures for hearings under Titles I and VIII of the Dodd-Frank Act.  The amendments add Section 117 of the Dodd-Frank Act to the scope of its hearing procedures, and make other conforming technical and streamlining amendments. Section 117 of the Dodd-Frank Act (the so-called Hotel California provision) applies to certain bank holding companies and provides that in the event one of these entities ceases to be a bank holding company, it shall thereupon be treated as a nonbank financial company subject to supervision by the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Section 117 also provides that an entity designated as a nonbank financial company pursuant to this section may request a hearing before the FSOC to appeal this treatment.  The amendments are effective immediately, but the FSOC will accept written comments received within 30 days of the publication of the amendments in the Federal Register.

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