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UK Draft Payment Services (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Published

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HM Treasury has published a final draft version of the Payment Services (Amendment) Regulations 2024, enhancing efforts to address authorized push payment fraud. The draft Regulations amend regulation 86 of the Payment...more

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SEC Amends Form N-PORT and N-CEN Reporting Requirements and Issues Guidance on Open-End Fund Liquidity Risk Management Programs

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On August 28, 2024, the SEC adopted amendments to reporting requirements on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and issued guidance on open-end fund liquidity risk management programs. Notably, the SEC declined to adopt the proposed...more

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UK Payment Systems Regulator Publishes Policy Statement Confirming the Maximum Level of APP Scam Reimbursement

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The Payment Systems Regulator has published a policy statement confirming the maximum level of Authorized Push Payment scam reimbursement. The statement follows the PSRs recent announcement confirming its decision to reduce...more

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Public Company Advisory: Q3 2024 SEC Snapshots

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The members of Maynard Nexsen’s Public Company Advisory Practice counsel public companies and companies aiming to become public on the full range of matters shaping their governance and operation in the public markets. As a...more

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Net-Zero Banking Alliance 2024 Publishes Progress Report

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The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative has published a 2024 progress report produced by the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Launched in 2021, the NZBA is a bank-led alliance of 144 banks globally voluntarily...more

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UK Financial Policy Committee Publishes Latest Summary and Record

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The Bank of England has published the record of the Financial Policy Committee meeting on September 19, 2024. Headline judgements and policy actions from the meeting: (i) risks to U.K. financial stability are broadly...more

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Single Resolution Board Adapts MREL Policy to Align with the Daisy Chains Directive

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The Single Resolution Board has published a communication on the changes to its minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities policy to be implemented in line with the "Daisy Chains Directive" (Directive (EU)...more

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Corporate Venture Capital Survey: Q2 2024

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Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) slowed to its lowest share of total VC deals since 2014 in the second quarter of 2024. Only 23.3% of deals that were completed include a CVC investor in Q2. Pitchbook data shows that just over...more

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Syndicated DDTLs: New territory for acquisition lines?

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We are increasingly seeing requests for a committed acquisition/capex facility – often referred to as a Delayed Draw Term Loan (DDTL) – to be included as part of the initial capital structure on European syndicated leveraged...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - October 14, 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Abolition of Lifetime Allowance: Further regulations - ...more

Perkins Coie

Are Public Companies Required to Have a Principal Accounting Officer?

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I was recently asked whether public companies are required, as a technical matter, to have principal accounting officers (PAOs). While PAOs are not strictly required, companies without PAOs should be aware of the result—that...more

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NYSE proposes to limit the use of reverse stock splits to regain price compliance

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Not to be outdone by Nasdaq, the NYSE is now also proposing to take on the challenge of repeated reverse stock splits. More specifically, the NYSE proposes to limit the circumstances under which a listed company may use a...more

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Looking Ahead to 2025: Private Equity Risk and Insurance Trends

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In last year’s Looking Ahead Guide, we had predicted the 2024 deal landscape would improve over 2023 year-end results in terms of number of closed buyout transactions, transaction values, and exits. This seems to be the case,...more

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Own risk assessments (ORAs) for UK pensions: when do you need one?

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Trustees or managers of an occupational pension scheme with 100 or more members must carry out and document an ORA.  The Pensions Regulator (TPR) describes an ORA as an assessment of how well a scheme’s “effective system of...more

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Virgin Media: is action needed by pension trustees?

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Our clients have been asking us whether they should conduct a review of previous deeds of amendment in light of the Court of Appeal decision in the Virgin Media case. This article sets out our views....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB, Mass. AG secure $50M from credit repair co., owner

Recently, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted summary judgment in favor of the CFPB and the Massachusetts AG, against defendant credit repair company and its owner. As previously covered by...more

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Trivial commutation lump sums: calculation changes, again

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Regulations issued on 7 October 2024 will change (again) the requirements for calculating whether a member may be paid a trivial commutation lump sum (TCLS).  The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 3)...more

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Two High Court Securities Cases Could Clarify Pleading Rules

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In granting certiorari in Facebook Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank and Nvidia Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to provide further guidance concerning application of the heightened...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FDIC extends comment periods on brokered deposit NPR, deposit data RFI

On October 8, the FDIC announced an extension of the comment period on its NPR to provide restrictions, update definitions, and provide new exceptions to the FDIC’s safety and soundness rule on brokered deposits (12 CFR...more

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Open Banking: An Introduction

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed an open banking rule (Proposed Rule) requiring certain financial institutions to allow consumers and approved third-party financial service providers to allow...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Banks Do Export, Too: New BIS Guidance Tags Financial Firms with Export Compliance Responsibilities

Pull quote: “Every export—every single one—has a related financial transaction” You are a banker. You do bankery things. You look at the ledgers, you tot up the numbers, you manage the accounts. Maybe you make loans,...more

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Bermuda investment funds – autumn 2024 update

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Our investment funds team outline the latest developments within the investment funds market in Bermuda, addressing the recent statistics from Q2 2024 published by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (the "BMA") as well as the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

TD Bank to Pay Historic $3 Billion Over AML Compliance Violations

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On October 10, 2024, multiple U.S. federal and state agencies cumulatively fined a number of US based Toronto Dominion Bank subsidiaries (collectively, TD Bank or the Bank) more than $3 billion after finding that TD Bank...more

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UK pensions dashboards: "Act now" says the Regulator

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In a recent blog, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) has urged schemes to get on with steps to comply with their pension dashboard duties.  Its particular concern is that schemes may not be sufficiently prepared to connect with the...more

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Massachusetts AG settles with loan servicer over debt collection violations

Recently, the Massachusetts AG settled with a loan servicer (respondent) to resolve allegations that respondent violated Massachusetts foreclosure-prevention law, debt collection regulations, and federal mortgage servicing...more

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