Mark Dorman President and CEO Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

In conjunction with the launch of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Wolters Kluwer Law & Business is pleased to announce that it is implementing a suite of products and services created specifically to assist banking and securities legal professionals in understanding and responding to the new regulations and enforcement activities this Bureau is expected to effect, to ensure that their clients are better equipped to respond to outcomes/consequences.

"There has been a tremendous amount of speculation as to the scope of the CFPB's activities," explains Mark Dorman, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. "As a result, legal practitioners are struggling to synthesize all of the information they are finding into something meaningful for their clients. Our respected banking and regulatory consultants and analysts, as well as our expert authors, have been distilling all this content to provide necessary guidance from a single, trusted source. Moreover, we are delivering this information in a relevant context, pairing it with expert commentary and analysis that will help professionals stay current and as a result better advise their clients."

The first of these solutions is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reporter, authored by the international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Available in print and online, the Reporter is the industry's first comprehensive, regularly updated resource offering timely coverage of the rules, regulations and enforcement activities of the CFPB, with practice commentary and analysis from Ralph C. Ferrara and Gary Apfel and the experienced attorneys at Dewey & LeBoeuf.

The Reporter serves as a guide for legal professionals across a broad range of industries, from banks and credit agencies, to mortgage finance and trust management. As a centralized source of content and commentary, it enables legal professionals to get quickly up to speed on Bureau activities and their implications on clients' day-to-day business. "Because the Bureau is a new independent federal agency with broad and wide-ranging authority, we expect a tremendous amount of activity over the first few months after its launch," adds Jim Hamilton, Principal Federal Securities Law Analyst. "For legal practitioners to effectively advise their clients, it's critical that they stay current."

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business expects to launch additional CFPB resources in the coming months. "We're proud of our reputation as the go-to industry resource for accurate, timely, and contextual legal content in securities and banking," Dorman continues. "Our customers recognize not only the breadth of content we offer, but the way in which our experts are able to make it relevant to and integrate it in their daily business activities. Our CFPB resources are a natural extension of the proficiency we deliver to our customers every day." 

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business is a leading provider of research products and software solutions in key specialty areas for legal and business professionals, as well as casebooks and study aids for law students. Its major product lines include Aspen Publishers, CCH, Kluwer Law International and Loislaw. Its markets include health care organizations, law firms, law schools, corporate counsel and professionals requiring legal and compliance information. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a unit of Wolters Kluwer, is based in New York City and Riverwoods, IL. 

Wolters Kluwer is a market-leading global information services company. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer's leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world.

Dewey & LeBoeuf is a full-service global law firm, providing legal counsel throughout the Americas, Europe, Russia/CIS, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. With over 1,1 00 lawyers in major financial and commercial centers, the firm represents national and international corporations, financial institutions and government agencies in their most complex legal matters.

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Consumer Financial Services Group consists of a multi-disciplinary team of experienced lawyers from across the Firm, including regulatory, compliance, litigation, and debtors' and creditors' rights attorneys. In addition, this Group has access to all of the firm's specialties from first amendment litigation to real estate.