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Agencies Issue Joint Proposal to Strengthen and Modernize CRA Regulations

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Regulatory Developments - Agencies Issue Joint Proposal to Strengthen and Modernize CRA Regs - On May 5, the FDIC, the FRB and the OCC issued a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) to “strengthen and modernize” the...more

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Recent Guidance from DOJ on the Duress Defense to FCPA Liability

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In a dramatic departure from prior practice, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently released its first Opinion Procedure Release (“OPR”) in over eight years, and perhaps responding to criticism from the business...more

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SEC Finalizes Reforms Under Investment Advisers Act

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In this Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized reforms under the Investment Advisers Act to modernize rules that govern investment adviser advertisements and payments to solicitors, and published a risk...more

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DOJ Issues Long-Awaited FCPA Advisory Opinion

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On August 14, 2020, for the first time in roughly six years, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an advisory opinion regarding compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). More than two years ago, former...more

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Financial Services Weekly Roundup: Code Libor – SEC And OCIE Issue Risk Alert In Preparation Of Libor Discontinuation

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In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert about the scope and content of examinations OCIE plans to conduct of various...more

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CFTC Issues Enforcement Guidance to Encourage Self Reporting of FCPA Violations

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On March 6, 2019, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) published an Enforcement Advisory describing the circumstances in which companies that self-report violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”)...more

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2018 in review – ERISA guidance

In broad scope, the guidance issued in 2018 by the Department of Labor (DOL) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), extended a trend established over the preceding five years, with one...more

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Developments In CFTC Cooperation Program

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Introduction - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) recently took several steps to further encourage cooperation with and self-reporting to the Commission’s Division of Enforcement (Division). In...more

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Second Circuit Tosses Gibson Dunn from Lynn Tilton’s Case for Some Reason or Another

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You may know about Lynn Tilton’s fight with the SEC, which has accused (link is external) the Patriarch Partners chief of defrauding her investors. The SEC brought its case in administrative court (link is external), which...more

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Is There A State Role For Binary Option Regulation?

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The North American State Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) recently warned investors about the risks of investing in binary options. While NASAA asserts that many binary trading platforms are “unregulated or are...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 121-FCPA Year in Review, Part II

In this episode I review the two Opinion Releases, Esquenazi court decision, DOJ communications via speeches on FCPA enforcement. I end with a look at 2015. ...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FEC Approves Bitcoin Political Donations While SEC Issues Investor Alert

On May 8, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) unanimously affirmed in an advisory opinion that political committees (including candidate campaigns and political action committees) could legally accept small bitcoin...more

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