Daily Compliance News: July 15, 2025, The Fighting Workplace Bullying Edition
JONES DAY TALKS®: Real Assets Roundup: A New Look at Real Estate, Energy, and Infrastructure - Episode 1
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 1, Introduction
Daily Compliance News: July 14, 2025, The Secret Business Sauce-Reading Edition
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) Explained
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering Compliance – Lessons from The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sunday Book Review: July 13, 2025, The Best Books on History Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Design - Centric Internal Controls
Daily Compliance News: July 11, 2025, The What is a COI Edition
Because that's what heroes Do: Deep Space 9 – Episode 29: Character Dynamics and Ethical Tensions in When it Rains
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 73 - Geopolitical Risk: Thai Tensions / Sanctions, Tariffs & FCPA Enforcement in Asia
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Daily Compliance News: July 9, 2025, The TACO Don Caves Again Edition
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
SBR-Authors Podcast: A Journey Through Memoir, Technology, and Grief with Tony Stewart
Innovation in Compliance: Maximizing LinkedIn for Personal and Professional Branding with Carol Kaemmerer
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Control Deficiencies
Daily Compliance News: July 8, 2025, The Learning on the Job Edition
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which both extends many soon-to-expire provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and makes several additional changes to the...more
On July 10, the Massachusetts attorney general announced a $2.5 million settlement with a Delaware-based student loan company to resolve allegations that the company’s lending practices, including the use of artificial...more
Last week, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). At nearly 900 pages in length, OBBBA’s size lives up to its name by enacting sweeping changes to estate and gift taxes, income taxes,...more
Another week, another Adams v. Goliath story in the world of ERISA litigation—and this time, Goliath is Cigna. The company is now facing its second lawsuit in as many months over how it handled forfeitures in its $13 billion...more
On Thursday, July 10, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jonathan Gould to serve as the next Comptroller of the Currency in a 50–45 vote. Gould will succeed Acting Comptroller Rodney Hood, who offered his congratulations and...more
Si vous êtes un investisseur, un promoteur ou un prêteur dans une coentreprise qui se propose de financer le bien immobilier faisant l’objet de la coentreprise, il est important de protéger vos intérêts en soupesant les...more
Let me be honest: most fiduciary training out there is about as exciting as watching paint dry in a compliance office. It’s often a checkbox exercise—generic, outdated, and completely divorced from the real-world problems...more
On Sept. 4, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a final rule imposing new anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements on...more
On May 19, 2025, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (the “Court”) denied final approval of a $40 million proposed settlement in a major class action lawsuit against The Vanguard Group,...more
The Wall Street Journal has reported that recent bankruptcies nationwide in the Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) segment of the long-term care marketplace have resulted in residents losing their buy-in deposit....more
On June 30, 2025, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., agreeing to resolve a circuit split over whether private parties have an implied right of action to...more
In May 2025, Cozen O’Connor’s Real Estate Practice conducted a comprehensive survey to capture the pulse of the real estate investment community. The survey aimed to understand how current economic conditions, fluctuating...more
This week, two state attorneys general on very different ends of the political spectrum announced separate actions related to purported discrimination by AI services. Missouri sent inquiry letters to four Big Tech companies...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published two consultation papers under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), as amended by the revised Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR III). The first consultation paper...more
Policy uncertainty and market disruption: Panelists expressed concerns over proposed legislative changes, such as the begin of construction cliff and tax credit phase-downs, which could jeopardize over $300 billion in clean...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. Pension Schemes Bill call for evidence - The House of Commons...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency that was founded in 2010, after the United States went through a recession linked to abuses in the origination and sale of residential mortgage loans. The...more
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/532 has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Delegated Regulation supplements the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) with regard to regulatory...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued final policy statement PS25/8, accompanied by an updated webpage, confirming the regulatory fees and levies for the financial year 2025/26. This follows the FCA's April...more
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has published updated operational guidance, accompanied by a press release, on the solvent wind-down (SWD) of trading books. The guidance is intended to outline the scope and key expectations...more
The BVI Corporate team consisting of Partners Robert J.D. Briant, Partner Anton Goldstein, Partner Rachael Pape, Partner Eric Flaye and Counsel Nicholas Kuria were pleased to contribute to the BVI Jurisdictional overview to...more
On June 18, 2025, the Council of the European Union (EU) took a significant step forward in modernising the EU’s payment services framework by formally agreeing on its negotiating mandate for the Payment Services Directive 3...more
The Senate has confirmed Jonathan Gould as Comptroller of the Currency. Gould, who served as Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel at the OCC during President Trump’s first term, was confirmed 50-45. Every Democrat...more
K2 Integrity’s Justina Rousseau, senior managing director, and Elizabeth Severinovskaya, managing director, will join Arnold & Porter’s Kevin M. Toomey, partner and chair of the Financial Services practice, and Erik Walsh,...more
In the first half of 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published 4 enforcement actions regarding apparent sanctions violations and also made some key updates to its...more