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On March 19, 2025, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) issued Mortgagee Letter (ML) 2025-08 titled “Rescinding Multiple Appraisal Policy Related Mortgagee Letters.” As the title suggests, FHA rescinded three mortgagee...more
The European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has published a draft report (dated 12 March) on facilitating investments and reforms to boost European competitiveness and creating a Capital Markets Union....more
At least five lawsuits have recently been filed against employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciaries alleging a failure to prudently invest cash held in the ESOP trust. While scrutiny of investments in company stock has...more
On March 21, 2025, FinCEN published an “interim final rule” (IFR) that makes sweeping changes in the reach of the Corporate Transparency Act. The IFR is immediately effective and eliminates all BOI report obligations for all...more
The UK government plans to turbocharge the life sciences sector using policy levers to enhance research and development, innovation hubs, and private fundraising. In this piece, Michael Bloch explores how refinements to...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has announced the launch of a new alert portal, which is aimed at strengthening the global fight against retail investment fraud...more
Translations have been published of the joint guidelines on the estimation of aggregated annual costs and losses caused by major ICT-related incidents...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its strategy for the next five years and it has a very different tone and objective to the three-year strategy it shared in 2022. This shift in tone reflects developments...more
On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the Treasury Department, issued a new interim final rule on reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The new rule drastically...more
HM Treasury (HMT) has published a new webpage with a draft statutory instrument (SI) and policy note on the UK Markets in Financial Instruments Directive Organisational Regulation (UK MiFID Org Reg)... ...more
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated its webpage on the interest rate 'stress test' rule for mortgage lenders, and issued a call for evidence on the impact of the FCA handbook rule on considering the effect...more
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On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule that drastically changes the reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more
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I believe that plan providers who promised they will make me wealthy have consistently failed in that promise. While it’s perfectly fine to dream of retirement plan profits, it’s important not to let those dreams turn into...more
CryptoLink is a compilation of news stories published by outside organizations. Akin aggregates the stories, but the information contained in them does not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of the firm. Akin's...more
On March 7, Arizona Attorney General (AG) Kristin Mayes filed a novel lawsuit alleging consumer fraud and racketeering against numerous entities, individuals, and even law firms and title companies involved in the residential...more
On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an Alert stating that all entities created in the U.S.—including those previously known as “domestic reporting companies”—and their beneficial owners...more
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Republican senators have introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the rule that bans banks and credit unions from including medical debt on credit reports and generally prohibits the use of medical...more
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What role will solar, wind and storage technologies play in addressing the pending “energy emergency” in the United States, and how is the industry responding to heightened policy uncertainty stemming from the new federal...more
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