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News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

Loan Originator Compensation: New Rules

by Jonathan Foxx on 4/3/2013

On January 24, 2013, as the last of the Final Rules of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rolled out, I offered an outline of all of them, entitled "CFPB's Gang of Seven (Final Rules)".* I listed them in...more

Wager, Insurance, Bucketing or Swap?

by Keith Paul Bishop | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 3/5/2013

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned Professor Joan Heminway’s recent essay on crowdfunding. She notes that some crowd funding arrangements may “may look less like investment instruments commonly known as common stock or...more

DOJ Brings Civil Fraud Action Against S&P

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 2/11/2013

On February 4, the Department of Justice filed a complaint in the Central District of California against two Standard & Poor’s entities in connection with credit ratings S&P provided for certain RMBS and CDOs....more

U.S. Treasury Looks to States to Share Information as Part of Insurance Anti-Money Laundering Efforts

by Sedgwick LLP on 5/23/2012

The U.S. Treasury Department’s criminal enforcement arm, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has reached individual agreements with the states of Louisiana and California which will allow state insurance...more

Health Care Enforcement Defense Alert: DOJ and HHS Announce Efforts to Obtain Proactive Data Mining Tools to Supplement Anti-Fraud...

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 12/20/2010

In yet another health-related joint law enforcement initiative, Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced yesterday, December 16th, that they would...more