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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Will the State Attorneys General and Other State Agencies Fill the Void Left by the CFPB?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Alan Kaplinsky’s “Fireside Chat” with Matthew J. Platkin, New Jersey Attorney General
Compliance Tip of the Day: Using GenAI to Make Small Transformations
Great Women in Compliance: Humans at the Center of Strategy with Patrícia Godoy Oliveira
Compliance into the Weeds: End of FCPA and CFPB?
Daily Compliance News: February 12, 2025, The Hui Chen on Bondi Memo Edition
From Federal to Local: CFPB’s Blueprint for State Regulators — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Building Trust in AI with Blockchain
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring NLP and Burnout Recovery - Insights from Irina Alexander and Jen Hardy
Everything Compliance, Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 150, The Musk On Edition
SBR Authors Podcast: Finding Solace and Self-Discovery through Writing: A Conversation with Dan Mazur
Daily Compliance News: February 11, 2025, The Pause in FCPA Enforcement Edition
All Things Investigations: CFIUS - Balancing Security, Investment and Innovation with Sean Reilly
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: Leadership Lessons from ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’
Compliance Tip of the Day: Building a Data-Driven Culture
Adventures in Compliance: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: Leadership Lessons from ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’
FCPA Compliance Report: Workplace Culture and Compliance with Alejandra Almonte and Ann Sultan
Daily Compliance News: February 10, 2025 The For Immediate Compliance Edition
Sunday Book Review: February 9, 2025, The Business Fairness at Work Edition
While some of the crypto developments we have reported on in this edition of Cabinet News & Views have had a distinctively partisan bent to them, the departure of Gary Gensler from the Securities & Exchange Commission...more
2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more
Both the CFTC and SEC have new Acting Chairs, who are known to be crypto advocates, with Mark Uyeda being appointed Acting Chair of the SEC, taking over from Gary Gensler, while Caroline D. Pham has assumed the role of Acting...more
For private equity investors, the arrival of the 119th Congress and the new Trump administration shifts the landscape, creating uncertainty, challenge and opportunity in equal measure and highlighting the need for political...more
We continue to observe the growth of professional sports as an asset class, with private capital having transformed team investments in recent years from trophy assets to opportunities for significant growth....more
On January 30, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) approved a Stipulation and Consent Agreement (Agreement) between the Office of Enforcement (OE) and Stronghold Digital Mining Inc....more
After weeks of former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra emptying the shelves with dozens of new regulations, proposals and enforcement activity, the financial services industry now faces whiplash as the Trump administration takes...more
Financial institutions need to remain vigilant about managing anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act (AML/BSA) compliance in 2025. As the financial ecosystem becomes increasingly complex, and as transactions increasingly...more
Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and Josh Hawley, R-Mo. have introduced bipartisan legislation that could cap credit card interest rates at 10%....more
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Feb. 3, 2025, directing the Treasury and Commerce secretaries to submit a comprehensive plan within 90 days for the creation of the United States' first Sovereign...more
The significant growth in life & annuity reinsurance in the Cayman Islands has showed no signs of slowing in the past few years and a material ingredient of this growth is Cayman reinsurers sponsored by large private equity /...more
On December 20, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), announced settled charges against two private companies and one registered investment adviser for failing to timely file Forms D, a violation of Rule...more
The European Central Bank(ECB) has published FAQs on initial margin (IM) model approvals under EMIR 3. EMIR 3 requires, for the first time in the EU, counterparties to apply for authorisation before using, or adopting a...more
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/215 has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, extending EU equivalence for U.K. CCPs under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)...more
The European Commission has published a letter (dated 21 January 2025) addressed to the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) rejecting certain draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) the ESAs...more
One day after her confirmation on February 4, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued two Memos addressed to the entire U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which curtailed enforcement under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more
Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) investment is an increasingly used strategic tool that enables large corporations to make minority investments in startups that will complement and expand their existing products or services....more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper (CP25/3) on further proposals to support the implementation and operation of the new public offer platforms (POP) regime. This regime is designed to...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are considering ways to enhance individual accountability, particularly among Senior Managers, by more fully integrating the regulatory...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper (CP25/2) on further changes to the public offers and admissions to trading (POAT) regime and the UK Listing Rules (UKLR). This was published alongside...more
EMIR saw significant change last year. Further change is happening now in the form of a new amending Regulation known as EMIR 3.0. Read on for a deep dive into those changes and how they might impact you....more
On February 7, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced that he will appoint Rodney E. Hood as a Deputy Comptroller and designate him as the First Deputy Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...more
Will you recognize the Form 1099-K when you receive it from one or more third-party marketplace providers this year? A few years ago, the IRS implemented new reporting requirements for many popular peer-to-peer payment apps...more
Ensuring high-quality standards in any organization is an essential ingredient that must be rooted within a company’s Quality Management Program (QMP) – a program that creates a framework to ensure quality....more
On February 11, 2025, Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2024. TI observes that corruption remains “a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the...more