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Rewarding Whistleblowers Will Only be Effective as Part of a Wider Package of Reforms

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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Nick Ephgrave has consistently touted the benefits of offering financial rewards to whistleblowers. With the FCA also considering its position on financial incentivisation, and a supportive...more

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Daily Financial Regulation Update -- Tuesday, December 5, 2023

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December 4, 2023- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen addressed the Climate Investment Funds Panel, "Scaling Up Just Energy Transitions to Enable Industry Decarbonization." She highlighted that the Treasury has...more

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Daily Financial Regulation Update -- Friday, November 4, 2022

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November 3, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued three additional notices requesting public input on key climate and clean energy tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act....more

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Crypto and NFT Firms Make Announcements; Treasury Interprets Crypto Reports; Crypto Enforcement Actions by CFTC, SEC, IRS, DOJ and...

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Exchange Reaches Agreement to Sell Assets; New Crypto Products Launch - In a press release this week, Voyager Digital, a cryptocurrency exchange that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announced that it selected the...more

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Government Releases Final Tax Regulations on the Transition from Interbank Offered Rates

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On December 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a pre-publication version of final regulations (Treas. Reg. § 1.1001-6) addressing the principal tax...more

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IRS Promotes Use of Fallback Language to Assist with Libor, IBOR Transition

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2020-44 to assist the market's transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) and other interbank offered rates (IBORs) to alternative reference rates...more

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Treasury Department, IRS Issue Proposed Rules on Tax Impact of Transition from Libor

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have jointly issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) to address concerns and reduce uncertainty regarding the tax impact of the anticipated...more

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Bridging The Week - October 2019 #2

A broker-dealer and its chief executive officer settled charges brought in 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the firm facilitated manipulative conduct by a customer, despite being alerted by regulators and...more

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HMRC’s New Approach to Cryptoassets – Tax First, Define Later

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The UK tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has taken a further step towards tackling perceived tax avoidance in transactions involving cryptoassets. Specifically, according to press reports, exchanges such...more

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Goodbye LIBOR - Hello Operational Headache!

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A sea of change is on the horizon for benchmark interest rates as financial regulators respond to the need to replace the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR has lost the favor and, in some respects, the trust of...more

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Crypto Exchange and Payment Solutions Expand, New UK Guidance Issued, US Enforcement Actions Continue

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Cryptocurrency Exchange and Payment Solutions Continue to Expand - This week, Blockchain.com, a London-based supplier of digital wallets, announced that it is moving into the trading side of cryptocurrencies with a...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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More on the rather shocking departure of John Flannery from GE, the Board that didn’t want to give him any more leash for his turnaround plans, and the future of the embattled corporate giant under Larry Culp....more

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Après LIBOR: Black Swan or Y2K

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A practical guide to the cessation of LIBOR and the transition to a new replacement benchmark rate. Unquestionably, the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") is an integral part of nearly every type of financial product...more

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Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume X, Issue 37

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies Makes Recommendations - On September 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies (Advisory...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review - September 3, 2013

Joint Proposal on Risk Retention - On August 28, the FDIC, Fed, FHFA, OCC, SEC and HUD issued a notice of revised proposed rulemaking relating to required risk retention by sponsors in securitization transactions. The...more

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