AI Today in 5: June 8, 2026, The 4 Harsh Realities Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Leading with Invitation: Communications, Leadership, and Compliance with Dr. Dennis Cummins
Daily Compliance News: June 8, 2026, The Manipulative Creep Edition
Sunday Book Review: June 7, 2026, The Top Books Ursula Le Guin Edition
AI in Healthcare: Five Healthcare AI Stories You Need to Know This Week - June 5, 2026
AI Today in 5: June 5, 2026, The Tech Review, Not Political Review Edition
AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories - Week Ending June 5, 2026
Daily Compliance News: June 5, 2026, The Profit Disgorgement Edition
The Debanking Debate: Regulators, Risk, and Reality for Payments — The Consumer Finance Podcast
AI Today in 5: June 4, 2026, The Circular Bet Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 4, 2026, The Fighting Tariff Refunds Edition
AI Today in 5: June 3, 2026, The From No Control to Total Control Edition
Great Women in Compliance: Wildly Effective, 10 Years Later
Compliance into the Weeds: Why the Compliance Job Market Feels Frozen
Daily Compliance News: June 3, 2026, The Rubicon of Corruption is Crossed Edition
Powering Progress | Ep. 6 – Power, Scale, and Scrutiny
AI Today in 5: June 2, 2026, The Exposing Yourself Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 2, 2026, The Big Trouble Down Under Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Matt Ellis on Cartels, FTO Risk, and Corporate Compliance in Latin America
From the Editor’s Desk: Aaron Nicodemus on the May and June in Compliance Week
Cyber risk in the regulated financial services sector often crosses legal entities and geographies as banking groups typically share IT infrastructure and outsourcing arrangements. In March this year, the UK regulators (Bank...more
A set of nonprofit and for-profit organizations filed suit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and its Acting Director Russell Vought, asking the court to vacate the CFPB’s final rule amending the...more
On June 2, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published its Draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2026-2030, formally incorporating Chair Paul Atkins’ deregulatory and innovation-focused vision into...more
What Happened? In a little-noticed, but important development, on April 8, 2026, Fannie Mae issued a governance framework for Fannie Mae Seller/Servicers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML) in...more
Our Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group examines a recent UK High Court decision clarifying the standing requirements for creditors seeking administration orders, including holders of convertible loan notes whose...more
To understand Executive Order 14403, titled “Promoting Retirement-Savings Access for American Workers by Establishing TrumpIRA.gov,” issued by President Trump on April 30, 2026, it is helpful to understand the government’s...more
On May 19, the FTC announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada held a payment processor and two of its executives in civil contempt for allegedly violating a 2015 order governing the company’s payment...more
U.S. Financial Services Firms Announce Stablecoin Products - A U.S. national bank, SoFi, recently announced that it is the first to offer a “U.S. national bank-issued stablecoin [that] is available directly on a banking...more
Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Abolition of lifetime allowance: further clarificatory...more
On June 2, NYDFS announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the European Banking Authority (EBA) to foster cross-border cooperation on stablecoin supervision, including the sharing of confidential...more
On May 22, the FDIC Board of Directors approved an NPRM that would implement BSA/AML and sanctions compliance standards applicable to FDIC-supervised permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) as required by the GENIUS Act....more
On May 20, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed H.385 into law, establishing protections and remedies for victims of “coerced debt” and authorizing banks and credit unions to take protective action against suspected financial...more
Here is the situation I see again and again. A business owner took out an SBA COVID EIDL loan to survive the pandemic. The loan was large enough to require a personal guarantee....more
In December 2025, Treasury and the IRS issued proposed regulations under Code section 892 (Prior Proposed Regulations) addressing the taxation of foreign government investment income in the United States. Key provisions...more
On June 1, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order revisiting its February 2026 ruling concerning the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA). The court...more
ESG principles can be incorporated into an investment strategy or business operations in many, many ways. ESG factors can also be leveraged to access unique financing tools. Some are industry specific, such as the array of...more
It’s a critical period in the evolution of a digital asset ecosystem, as a more permissive regulatory environment has created new opportunities for digital asset ventures....more
Here’s an excerpt from this Cooley Alert penned by Rich Segal, Chad Mills, Julia Boesch, Reid Hooper, Liz Dunshee, Luci Altman, Victoria Peluso, Katherine Denby and Christine Turner:...more
On June 2, the OCC, the FDIC, and the Fed announced that they have jointly reissued 15 interagency guidance documents to remove references to reputation risk. The documents cover topics including asset securitization,...more
On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Tax Court released a memorandum decision in Paschall v. Commissioner addressing the federal tax treatment of staking, holding that there was taxation on staking rewards credited to Mr. Paschall’s...more
On May 18, FHA posted a draft Mortgagee Letter on its Single Family Drafting Table, proposing new requirements for determining borrower eligibility related to delinquent child support obligations subject to federal...more
In recent years, businesses that demonstrate certain environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria have seen a pronounced uptick in interest from many investors, particularly from institutional investors who were in...more
On June 2, reports indicated that the CFPB has appointed Mark Paoletta as Deputy Director, positioning him to succeed Acting Director Russel Vought when Vought’s temporary “acting” appointment ends later this year. The...more
On May 29, HUD issued a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register, seeking public comment on modernizing FHA’s Minimum Property Requirements (MPRs) for single-family mortgage insurance programs. MPRs require that...more
UK Payments Initiative Ltd (UKPI) has announced the launch of a new industry-led payment scheme designed to support scalable account‑to‑account payments using open banking. The scheme supports the ambitions set out in the UK...more