AI Today in 5: April 22, 2026, The AI Ready Lawyer Edition
Great Women in Compliance: Culture Check: Are Your Speak Up Channels Effective?
Compliance into the Weeds: Banking Regulators Cut Model Risk Guidance: Implications for Compliance, Audit, and AML Oversight
Daily Compliance News: April 22, 2026, The AI Hallucinations from Sullivan & Cromwell Edition
The PFBCon Podcast: From Podcast to Book (and Back): Building a Content Engine with AI Support
SBR-Author’s Podcast: Invitational Selling: Building Trust, Engagement, and Human Connection in a Digital World with Dr. Dennis Cummins
Innovation in Compliance: When a Senior Leader Faces Cancer: Disclosure, Continuity Planning, and Resilience with Deb Krier
How to Protect Your Business from a Counterparty's Financial Crisis – Speaking of Litigation
Daily Compliance News: April 21, 2026, The Scambodia Edition
Podcast — The Growth Rocketship: Navigating the Institutional Evolution of the Blockchain World With ParaFi
AI Today in 5: April 20, 2026, The Jassy’s Rules for AI and FinTech Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Vince Walden on AI, Digital Assistants, and ROI at Compliance Week 2026
Daily Compliance News: April 20, 2026, The ABC is Good Politics Edition
Sunday Book Review: April 19, 2026, The UC Press Edition
AI in Healthcare: Five Healthcare AI Stories You Need to Know This Week - April 17, 2026
AI Today in 5: April 17, 2026, The AI in Life Sciences Edition
AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories - Week Ending April 17, 2026
Daily Compliance News: April 17, 2026, The We’re Not Busy Edition
TMA Chicago/Midwest Podcast | Chapter President Sandy Prabhakar on Referral Networks, Market Uncertainty and "Pipeline to Prosperity"
TMA Chicago/Midwest Podcast | Sandeep Gupta on Middle Market Restructurings and Investigations
Our Investment Funds and Financial Services teams review the Securities and Exchange Commission statement addressing when crypto trading interfaces may fall within the definition of a broker under federal securities laws....more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2026 Spring National Meeting from March 22-25 in San Diego, California. As has become the norm, a number of relevant NAIC working groups and task forces met...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) on April 8, 2026, jointly published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) implementing...more
On April 16, 2026, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance (Division) issued exemptive relief relating to tender offers of equity securities that would shorten the minimum offering...more
As crypto moves from the margins to the mainstream of the UK financial system, regulatory uncertainty is giving way to structured supervision, authorisation and enforcement. ...more
On April 14, Iowa Attorney General (AG) Brenna Bird, leading a coalition of 13 state AGs, sent a pointed letter to Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Their message was clear: payment networks are expected to...more
The Sterling Group has announced its acquisition of Healthcare Linen Services Group (HLSG) from York Private Equity. HLSG, founded in 2009 and based in St. Charles, Illinois, is a provider of healthcare laundry services...more
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has published its response to the European Commission's (EC) targeted consultation on the competitiveness of the EU banking sector. The SRB emphasises that while the banking union has...more
Les certificats de préclusion signés par les locataires jouent un rôle essentiel dans les opérations immobilières commerciales en permettant aux acheteurs et aux prêteurs d’obtenir directement d’un ou des locataires concernés...more
On March 19, 2026, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC"), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") proposed revisions to the standardized approach for risk-weighted assets...more
On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an advisory on sham transactions, highlighting the compliance risks financial institutions must navigate when...more
The prospect of federal rescheduling of cannabis has the lending community buzzing. We recently sat down with Alex Mazza, Director of Underwriting at Chicago Atlantic Group, as well as Michelle Haughton and Bobby Boyda of...more
On April 22, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued its final rewrite of Subpart A of Regulation B (Reg B) under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which eliminates disparate impact from...more
On March 13, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its draft Strategic Plan for FY 2026–2030 and accepted public comment through April 17. The plan, required under the Government Performance and...more
Following the enactment, in December 2025, of the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 (the “Act”), the High Court handed down a judgment on 10 March 2026 in which Mr Justice Cotter confirmed the Law Commission's...more
On April 17, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (collectively, the federal agencies)...more
As private markets continue to mature, structured equity has moved firmly into the mainstream. Whether used in growth capital deals, buyouts, or real estate transactions, it offers investors a compelling middle ground between...more
Introduction - Les certificats de préclusion signés par les locataires jouent un rôle essentiel dans les transactions immobilières. Que vous soyez un acheteur, un prêteur ou un locataire, il est probable que vous ayez déjà...more
On April 13, 2026, the Staff of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets issued guidance (the "Guidance") setting out the conditions under which providers of covered user interfaces ("CUIs"), including DeFi front ends and...more
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week....more
In the aftermath of the financial crisis bank supervisors increased their scrutiny of leveraged lending by banks due to the high-risk profile of such loans. In 2013/2014, the US supervisors took a prescriptive approach, inter...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a webpage with official translations of its guidelines on the periodic information that benchmark administrators, credit rating agencies (CRAs), data...more
Recurring 410(b) failures are rarely random. When a plan consistently struggles with coverage testing, it’s not bad luck. It’s structural....more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report analysing the recovery plan submissions of 16 European cross-border banking groups, whose parent institutions are located in ten different EU countries, with a...more
Armed conflicts today are rarely confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, geopolitical tensions spill into cyberspace, where state-sponsored hackers, proxy groups and opportunistic cybercriminals conduct operations...more