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Weekly Blockchain Blog - September 2024

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Crypto Payments Firms Announce New Integrations and Initiatives - According to reports, fintech bank Revolut recently announced a partnership with Ledger, a major crypto hardware wallet provider, to make it easier for...more

K&L Gates LLP

Digital Operational Resilience in the Financial Services Sector: EU and UK Update

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With under six months to go until the European Union Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) becomes applicable on 17 January 2025, DORA implementation projects are running full steam ahead. DORA lays down uniform...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 29th Annual Flagship Conference on Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions - November 21st - 22nd, Toronto, ON,...

Don’t miss the opportunity to gain valuable insights from industry experts at Canadian Institute’s Annual Flagship Conference on Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions. This event will equip you with strategies to...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Fixed and Floating Charges: the Key is Control, but the Key to Control is Drafting

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In our April webinar “Risk Mitigation Techniques in Trade Financing Structures”, which I delivered with my colleagues Sam Fowler-Holmes and Maria Capocci, we discussed methods to mitigate risks all the way along the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SEC’s Proposed Conflicts of Interest Rule May Impede Hedging

Critics are warning that the SEC’s recently proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) prohibiting conflicts of interest in asset-backed securities (ABS) transactions may impede the ability of financial institutions, broker-dealers...more

Venable LLP

[Webinar] Payment Processors in the Regulatory Crosshairs: Updates on Regulatory Scrutiny and Best Practices for Compliance - May...

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In recent years, payment processors and other financial intermediaries have faced heightened scrutiny from regulatory agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, for their relationships with companies engaged in...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Complimentary Webinar] Mitigating Sanctions and Export Control Risks for Life Sciences, Research Institutes and Universities -...

Global life sciences companies, research institutes, and universities face unique challenges when complying with U.S. and non-U.S. trade control laws, including complying with general and specific licenses authorizing...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Virtual Event] Global Economic Sanctions Forum for Canadian Operations - November 19th, 8:50 am - 5:30 pm EDT

The Canadian Institute is proud to announce the Virtual 6th Annual Forum on Economic Sanctions For Canadian Operations taking place virtually on November 19, 2020. This program offers a full day of up to the minute analysis...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Capital One fined for inadequate data controls

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 16 (August 20, 2020) - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined Capital One USD 80 million for inadequate data controls leading to a 2019 data breach and for failing to fix...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

A Perfect Storm: COVID 19, Financial Services & Model Risk

As the world transitions toward a “new normal” of co-existing with COVID-19, the economic implications of the outbreak continue to emerge....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Summary of 28th Annual Conference on Fair Lending and Consumer Financial Protection

Year In Review - Anand Raman, the head of Skadden’s Consumer Financial Services (CFS) practice, began the conference by providing a summary of notable events and trends over the past year relating to consumer financial...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The New York Department of Financial Services Requests Assurance From Regulated Financial Institutions and Insurance Carriers...

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On March 10, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”), which regulates a wide variety of financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies, and investment advisors doing business in New York,...more

Troutman Pepper

Managing Your Next Examination - You Got This

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Bank examinations, holding company inspections and other “supervisory events” can be a source of anxiety and dread for those who work in the banking industry. Originally published in ABA Bank Compliance - March/April 2020....more

Hogan Lovells

The Australian Government introduces the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crimes) Bill 2019 (Cth) targeting...

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Recently, three of Australia's four largest banks have self-reported breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2018 admitted fault and agreed to pay a civil...more

White & Case LLP

NYDFS Requires LIBOR Transition Plans by Early February

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On December 23, 2019, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued an Industry Letter instructing each institution it regulates, including banks and licensed Fintechs, to make submissions describing the...more

Dechert LLP

FCA Enforcement Risk: The Year Ahead

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Firms will need to ensure their systems and controls to prevent financial crime and money laundering are working effectively: this is just part of the message contained in the FCA’s Business Plan for 2019/20. The Business...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

IMF Finds Leveraged Lending an Area of Concern, But Risks Are Mitigated

On April 10, 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held a press conference to discuss its semiannual Global Financial Stability Report (the GFSR), which assesses key risks facing the global financial system. The GFSR...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Federal Banking Agencies Propose Updating Calculation of Derivative Contract Exposure Amounts

On October 30, 2018, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (collectively, the agencies) jointly invited comment on a...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Ten Key Issues Addressed in Equipment Leases for Bankers

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Equipment leasing presents a bank with an opportunity to open the door to new customer relationships and to satisfy its existing customer’s need to acquire the use of equipment. An understanding of the unique features of...more

Morgan Lewis

How Corporations Can Stay Vigilant Against Online Banking Fraud – Lessons from Recent Court Judgments

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Due to the general flexibility granted to banks by their standard account opening terms, corporate victims of online banking frauds often face substantial hurdles in court in their attempts to recover the sums lost from the...more

Troutman Pepper

OCC's High-LTV Bulletin Is a Win for Banks and Consumers

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Since the financial crisis, it has been difficult for consumers and developers to obtain mortgages to buy and build in the areas most hurt by the recession. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has...more

BCLP

Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts

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Host Jonathan Hightower is joined by Ken Achenbach to discuss this week's proposed guidance from the Federal Reserve on the effectiveness of bank boards. In addition, at the outset of the episode Jonathan and Ken reviewed...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Rock and a Hard Place: Banks In Search of Compliance Amid Diverging Regulatory Regimes

Last year was the first that national banks and federal savings associations subject to supervision by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) were armed with a sense of the agency’s regulatory expectations when...more

Locke Lord LLP

[Webinar] Business E-mail Compromise Scams - Practical Perspectives - January 12th, 10:30am EST

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An increasing number of businesses are targeted by very sophisticated email scams designed to convince company employees responsible for executing financial transactions to wire funds to overseas accounts controlled by...more

K2 Integrity

FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Rule and Increased AML Burden

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Compliance officers at financial institutions have made great strides in improving Know Your Customer (KYC) programs to focus on knowing their customers as a critical function in combating money laundering. As regulators...more

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