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A Glimpse Into the Other Side: Understanding the Perspective of Government Enforcers
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Time to Amend the Defend Trade Secrets Act
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PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Compliance and Enforcement Considerations for Private Funds & RIAs
State AG Pulse | State AGs and Feds: The Dynamics of Influence & Collaboration
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 20 - Pitfalls and Perils: Employee Retention Credit Enforcement Trends
University of Miami NIL Enforcement Action – Highway to NIL Podcast
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On September 13, the CFPB filed a complaint against a nonbank corporation and its CEO, alleging that the company engaged in deceptive and abusive acts through misleading advertising and unjustified, exorbitant fees related to...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued the Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2024-04 warning financial institutions that broad employee confidentiality agreements may violate the whistleblower...more
On August 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) virtually cohosted the first public meeting of the multiagency Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing (Strike Force), focused on antitrust...more
On July 24, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance putting financial regulators and employers on notice that requiring employees to sign broad confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements that...more
Arbitration agreement deemed inapplicable where plaintiff plausibly alleged sexual harassment claim - The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 ( “EFAA”) amended the Federal...more
Now that the dust has settled following the Supreme Court’s overhaul of administrative law through three late-term decisions, Akin litigators and policy advisors offer the most significant takeaways for businesses and...more
On a July 19, the Federal Reserve Board announced it has issued a consent order against a Utah-based bank and its parent company for engaging in unfair and deceptive acts and practices in violation of Section 5(a)(1) of the...more
On June 25, the CFPB issued its annual fair lending report covering its fair lending activity in 2023. The Bureau noted that in 2023 it undertook 28 fair lending examinations and announced four enforcement actions. It...more
On June 24, the OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, NCUA, CFPB, and FHFA approved a final rule to implement the quality control standards mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act to address the use of artificial intelligence in...more
On June 3, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued the Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders Final Rule (“the Final Rule”)....more
Nonbank financial services companies with prior enforcement orders are preparing for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new Registry, which takes effect September 16. Nonbank consumer lenders, loan servicers,...more
On June 18, the CFPB settled enforcement actions against two mortgage servicers who serviced reverse mortgages on behalf of HUD, for their systemic failure to respond to consumer requests for assistance, resulting in...more
On June 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed an order to resolve its 2023 lawsuit against the former CEO of a short-term small dollar lender and his spouse, in connection with a series of fraudulent transfers...more
The centralized repository would assist the CFPB and law enforcement in detecting patterns of misbehavior and recidivism adversely affecting consumers. On June 3, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: • Proposed Settlement Between AGs, DOJ, and NCAA Would...more
On May 17, the CFPB filed a lawsuit against a California-based fintech that operates a nationwide website and mobile-application based peer-to-peer lending platform through which consumers can obtain small-dollar, short-term...more
In April 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and the Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Protection of the European Commission (European Commission) announced that three meetings had been...more
Federal Trade Commission. Deceptive real estate listings. On April 3, 2024, FTC announced close to $62 million in refunds for consumers misled by deceptive marketing and advertising practices used by Opendoor Labs, Inc., an...more
The Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission) Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) launched a new “Spring Cleaning” initiative this month to combat unlawful robocalling campaigns. On April 4, the Bureau sent a...more
On April 17, the CFPB issued a consent order against a San Francisco-based for-profit coding school and its and CEO, banning it from lending to consumers, after it found that the company inflated its job placement rates to...more
The American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s annual Spring Meeting concluded on April 12. The annual Spring Meeting featured updates from federal, state and international antitrust enforcers and extensive discussion...more
On March 5, 2024, the White House announced the establishment of a new “Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing” (the “Strike Force”) stating that the Biden administration will hold accountable “corporations . . . when...more
Editor's Note: The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically...more
On February 28, 2024, the Biden Administration issued Executive Order (EO) 13873, focused on restricting certain transactions involving Americans' personal data, as well as sensitive government data, to specific countries....more
On February 28, 2024, President Biden announced he was signing an Executive Order intended to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data. The Executive Order focuses on large-scale transfers of (i) genomic data, (ii)...more