Compliance Tip of the Day: AI for Whistleblower Anonymity
FCPA Compliance Report: Celebrating the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies: Highlights with Erica Salmon Byrne
Daily Compliance News: March 17, 2025, The Severance Edition
Episode 360 -- Natalie Druckman from Certa on AI-Enhanced Third-Party Risk Management
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending March 15, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day: Use of Blockchain in Compliance
Daily Compliance News: March 14, 2025, The $200 Transaction Edition
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prof. Hal Scott Doubles Down on His Argument That CFPB is Unlawfully Funded Because of Combined Losses at Federal Reserve Banks
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Superforecasting
Everything Compliance: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Daily Compliance News: March 13, 2025, The Uncle Jeffrey Edition
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Taming Complexity
Hill Country Podcast: Upcoming Exhibits and Events at the Museum of Western Art
Compliance into the Weeds: More Compliance Challenges in the Trump Era
Great Women in Compliance: Stop, Collaborate, & Listen with Kristy Grant-Hart
Daily Compliance News: March 12, 2025, The Ruth Marcus Resigns Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: The Last Mile
Requiem for the Rules: The Rise and Fall of the Junk Fee and CARS Rules — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
On March 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published updates to its Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) related to exempt offerings under the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act). These...more
On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Division of Corporation Finance (SEC Staff) published new and revised Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) regarding private offering...more
A recent Bankruptcy Court decision granted recognition to a Mexican concurso mercantile and gave full force and effect to a Mexican concurso plan that contained nonconsensual third-party releases....more
On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a no-action letter providing a new safe harbor for Rule 506(c) offerings, which may enable broader public outreach and...more
La Comisión para el Mercado Financiero (CMF) de Chile publicó la Norma de Carácter General Nº533 (NCG 533) el 12 de marzo de este año, que define requisitos y condiciones para ser considerado director independiente y que...more
Chile’s Financial Market Commission (CMF, for its Spanish translation) issued General Rule No. 533 (NCG 533) on March 12, 2025, which defines the requirements and conditions for being considered an independent director and...more
On March 6, 2025, for the first time since 2008, the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission updated its guidance on the use of lock-up agreements in connection with Rule 145(a) transactions (i.e.,...more
Antitrust and Competition - The French Competition Authority Launches Public Consultation Addressing Below-Threshold Transactions - On 14 January 2025, the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence, FCA)...more
I n his inauguration speech, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” 401(k) plan sponsors have more to fear than fear itself except the problem is that they’re unaware that they...more
On March 3, the OIG for the Fed and CFPB published a report titled “The Bank Exams Tailored to Risk Process Promotes Risk-Focused Supervision of Community Banking Organizations, but Training Can Be Enhanced,” evaluating the...more
On March 7, Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell delivered his prepared remarks at an event regarding the current economic outlook and U.S. monetary policy. Powell highlighted, despite any uncertainty, the U.S. economy was performing...more
On March 7, the OCC issued its Interpretive Letter 1183, affirming that national banks and federal savings associations can engage in various cryptocurrency activities, including crypto-asset custody, certain stablecoin...more
On March 10, the FDIC, the Fed and the OCC published the 2024 Shared National Credit Program (SNC) report which highlighted that the overall SNC credit risk remains moderate — with a slight increase in the severity of risk...more
On March 11, the Superintendent of NYDFS, Adrienne Harris, reportedly announced her agency’s intention to hire federal financial agency employees affected by recent job cuts under the Trump administration. Harris highlighted...more
On March 10, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released news of shutting down 42 allegedly fake cryptocurrency websites in 2024 that scammed victims out of at least $6.5 million. The scams supposedly issued an average...more
On March 6, Sens. Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) from the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee requested information from the CEO of a company that collects and reports consumer information in the...more
On March 6, the White House announced Executive Order 14233 to establish the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and the U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. This order aims to leverage bitcoin’s “scarcity and security” by maintaining it as a...more
On March 12, it was reported that President Trump will nominate Fed Governor Michelle Bowman as the central bank’s next vice chair for supervision, filling the position previously held by Michael Barr who resigned earlier...more
On March 4, the FHFA ordered both government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to submit stress testing results based on their financial positions as of December 31, 2024, following scenarios issued by the...more
On March 12, the CFPB and its Acting Director, Russell Vought, filed a status report in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in response to the court’s order requesting clarification on how the CFPB...more
Based on the news reports from this morning, it seems unlikely that the threatened government shutdown will come to pass. Nevertheless, although the shutdown appeared doubtful, just this morning, Corp Fin posted an...more
On March 7, a cert petition was filed at the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on the CFPB’s payday lending rule. The petitioner, a financial services trade...more
On March 11, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas against a financial technology company offering cash advances up to $200 through a lending app. The lawsuit alleged the company...more
With effect from 1 April 2025, the licensing regime under the VASP Act will be implemented, requiring those providing virtual asset custody services or operating virtual asset trading platforms to obtain a licence under the...more
On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) specifically aimed at combatting Mexico-based cartels and other criminals along the southwest border of the United...more