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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Deep Space 9 – Episode 18: Waltz: A Deep Dark Dive into Madness

Get ready for an exciting new season of Because That’s What Heroes Do. This season, they take a deep dive into their favorite 15 episodes of Deep Space 9. In this exploration, Tom and Megan are joined by Star Trek maven Alex...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending December 7, 2024

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you the compliance professional and the compliance stories you need to...more

Mayer Brown

Russia/Ukraine Sanctions Update - Month of November

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I.  US SANCTIONS - US Department of the Treasury Acts to Curtail Russia’s Use of the International Finance System: On November 21, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) designated...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CFPB Issues Proposed Rule to Restrict Data Brokers’ Use of Data

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced this week that it intends to increase the scrutiny on data brokers to better protect service members, law enforcement officials, domestic violence victims, senior...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The CFPB's Race Against the Clock

While many Federal agencies, including the prudential bank regulators, have decided to hold back moving forward with initiatives until after the inauguration in January, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") has...more

K&L Gates LLP

Federal Court Vacates SEC’s Expanded Dealer Definition

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On 21 November 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Court) ruled against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in two separate cases, vacating its rule which expanded the definition of...more

Troutman Pepper

Federal and State Financial Agencies Issue Guidance on Elder Financial Exploitation

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Earlier this week, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Texas Judge Issues Preliminary Nationwide Injunction Against Corporate Transparency Act

On December 3, 2024, Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland, halting the...more

Bailey & Glasser, LLP

Client Alert: Holiday Surprise: Nationwide Injunction Halts Corporate Transparency Act Enforcement

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The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) requires most companies—except for certain exempt entities—to disclose their ownership details to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). A looming January 1, 2025 reporting...more

K&L Gates LLP

Australia: AI and Your Obligations as an Australian Financial Services Licensee

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As Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be adopted and used by Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensees broadly, it has become increasingly evident that many licensees’ deployment of AI falls short of their existing...more

DLA Piper

Reporting Companies Should Remain Flexible Given Uncertain Future of the Corporate Transparency Act after Texas Court Grants...

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Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as an anti-money laundering initiative in 2021 designed to combat the use of anonymous “shell companies” to facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, and threaten...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Prevents Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act

With the enactment of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), so-called “Reporting Companies” were required to disclose to the U.S. federal government, via the submission of a Beneficial Ownership information (BOI) Report to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

EMIR 3: Active Account, Clearing Threshold and Exemptions

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On December 4, 2024, EU Regulation 2024/2987 (EMIR 3), amending EU Regulation 648/2012 on the European Market Infrastructure (EMIR), was published in the EU Official Journal. EMIR 3 will enter into force on December 24, 2024,...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

THE DESK: MVA’s Swaps and Derivatives Newsletter - December 2024

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With the CFTC still in the early stages of its fiscal year, in the month of November, we did not see a lot of action by way of publicly-released enforcement actions from the CFTC or enforcement-related public statements from...more

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Reminder: Renewal and Notice Filing Fees for Investment Advisers due by December 9, 2024

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As a reminder, investment advisers who are subject to any state registration, renewal or notice filing fees must have funded their IARD accounts by December 9, 2024 in order to cover such fees (with a recommendation from IARD...more

A&O Shearman

Second Financial Conduct Authority Consultation on Proposals for the Publication of Enforcement Measures

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The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published its second consultation on a proposed new approach to publicising its enforcement investigations and changes to its Enforcement Guide. The FCA first consulted on these...more

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Die neue Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie: Ein Überblick

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Ein Jahr nach Inkrafttreten der neuen EU-Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie (Richtlinie 2023/2225) im November 2023: Wann kommt die Umsetzung, was wird geregelt und wie sind die Reaktionen der Wirtschaft? Die...more

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Exit tax for investement shares

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Anyone who moves out of Germany and has investment shares or transfers them outside of Germany will have to pay taxes – even if the shares are not sold. Private investors in investment funds will have to pay taxes in the...more

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Cayman Entities and the Economic Substance Regime – Is Your Cayman Entity in Compliance?

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As we gear up for the final quarter of 2024, this is an excellent time to review Cayman based entities with a financial year end of 31 December 2024 and consider the position of these entities with respect to the Cayman...more

Torres Trade Law, PLLC

Treasury Finalizes Rule Increasing CFIUS Penalties and Expanding Enforcement Powers

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On November 17, 2024, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”), in its role as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or “the Committee”), published a final rule (“Final Rule”)...more

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Nationwide Pause of Corporate Transparency Act and BOI Reporting Requirements

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Entities subject to CTA coverage should continue to prepare to report BOI to FINCEN. On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the...more

BCLP

2024 CFTC Enforcement: Agency Celebrates Record Monetary Relief

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On December 4, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) released its enforcement results for Fiscal Year 2024 (“FY 2024”), showcasing record awards of monetary relief totaling more than $17.2 billion....more

A&O Shearman

CRT Transactions in the EU, U.K. and the United States

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In this bulletin, we consider the current state of the EU, U.K. and U.S. markets for credit risk transfer (“CRT”) transactions, with a particular focus on the fund finance market. For a more in-depth introduction to this...more

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UK Financial Conduct Authority Consults on the MiFID Organisational Regulation

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The consultation paper also includes a discussion chapter about further reform, either now or in the future, to make the rules better suited to the range of U.K. licensed firms and their clients. This includes in...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dual registrant regulatory roundup - December 2024

Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more

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