USA Law

Tag: Banks

  • Receivership

    Receivership in the United States Definition of Receivership Note: See provisional remedies (in U.S. law). For a meaning of it, read Receivership in the Legal Dictionary here. Legal Materials There is not much on receivership specifically. The leading treatise was Ralph Ewing Clark’s […]

  • Comptroller of the Currency

    Comptroller Of The Currency in the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is an independent bureau of the Treasury Department that regulates federally chartered (national) banks. The OCC has a useful web site […]

  • Commercial Banking

    Commercial Banking in the U.S. in the United States Significance Commercial banks are the most significant of the financial intermediaries, accounting for some 60 percent of the nation’s deposits and loans. History The first bank to be chartered by the new federal government was the Bank […]

  • Legal Tender Cases

    Legal Tender Cases in United States In American finance, the Legal Tender Cases were  a series of cases before the United States Supreme Court, involving the question whether certain acts of Congress declaring United States notes a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, were […]

  • Influence of Reserve Banks

    Influence of Reserve Banks in United States Influence of Reserve Banks on Banking and Business The influence of reserve banks upon business conditions in the United States is seen in the results of their effort to establish more uniform discount rates throughout the country, in their success […]

  • Expansion of Reserve Banks

    Expansion of Reserve Banks in the United States Expansion of Reserve Banks until 1921 Before the entry of the United States into the war the operations of the Federal Reserve banks had been restricted, for reasons already explained, so that the personnel employed was necessarily limited. […]

  • Bank of America

    Bank of America BofA in the United States Bank of America, which bought Countrywide Financial Corp. in 2008, settled with large hedge funds, but some investors objected and succeeded in having it removed to federal court. Countrywide Financial – Bank of America Merger and Home Loans […]