From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Daily Compliance News: July 9, 2025, The TACO Don Caves Again Edition
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
SBR-Authors Podcast: A Journey Through Memoir, Technology, and Grief with Tony Stewart
Innovation in Compliance: Maximizing LinkedIn for Personal and Professional Branding with Carol Kaemmerer
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Control Deficiencies
Daily Compliance News: July 8, 2025, The Learning on the Job Edition
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Exploring Future Regulatory Trends and Compliance Strategies with Rory McGrath
FCPA Compliance Report: Stay the Course: Ellen Lafferty on Navigating Anti-Corruption Compliance in 2025
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
The Authenticity Advantage: How Runbin Dong’s Scale Social AI Helps Small Businesses Shine
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Banking on Lending Models — The Consumer Finance Podcast
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 5 – Monitoring Activities
Episode 30 - Inaugural Episode with Ian Sherr: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from June to July 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 4 - Control Information and Communication
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (the “OBBBA”), which contains amendments to sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Original Statute”)—the provisions that...more
The European Supervisory Authorities (the European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) have launched a joint consultation on their joint...more
Since Paul Atkins became Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 21, 2025, the SEC has announced significant pivots in its approaches to enforcement, regulatory guidance, investment adviser...more
The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation) (MiCAR), regarding regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the minimum contents...more
Key Takeaways: - After a 5-month pause, OFAC recently announced four sanctions enforcement actions, making clear it is rigorously enforcing sanctions violations across a wide range of programs (including Russia, Iran,...more
Following the commission’s announcement in March of the first 47 Strategic Projects under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act (Act) located within the EU (discussed in our previous article, the commission has confirmed 13...more
Through an Interim Final Rule that became effective March 26, 2025 (the “IFR”), the U.S. Treasury Department took action to exclude all U.S.-formed entities from the BOI[1] reporting regime under the Corporate Transparency...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Handbook Notice 131, outlining updates to the FCA Handbook resulting from the following statutory instruments. Enforcement Guide (Amendment) Instrument 2025. Revokes the...more
Financial institutions across the United States have grappled with compliance requirements under the Customer Identification Program (CIP) Rule for more than two decades. A new exemption, approved in June 2025, promises...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement PS25/7, alongside an updated webpage, on data decommissioning. Following the FCA's consultation in April, it has proceeded with: - Removing the...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its spring 2025 risk assessment report alongside a press release, outlining key developments and emerging risks within the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). The...more
On June 27, 2025, the Federal Reserve approved a proposal to recalibrate a key capital requirement applicable to the largest U.S. banking organizations (known as global systemically important banks (GSIBs)). - The proposal...more
In a significant move, on June 27, 2025 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order granting banks and their subsidiaries an exemption from the Customer Identification...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law on July 4, 2025, establishes new phased-in benefits for Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) held for at least three years. Prior to the OBBBA’s amendments, Section...more
In this special crossover edition of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, Carlin McCrory and Jason Cover are joined by their colleague Caleb Rosenberg to explore the evolving landscape of small business financing....more
On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially issued Syria General License (GL) 25, which lifted the...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, which had narrowly passed through the United States Congress. The OBBBA makes permanent certain tax provisions that were due to expire...more
It might appear as though investors are struggling to see how to make the energy transition profitable, but European investor appetite hasn’t waned for the right transaction. Below we consider some topical issues and risk...more
On June 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer of the Central District of California sentenced a former Chairman and CEO of a behavioral healthcare company to 42 months in federal prison. This conviction represents the...more
The opportunity zones tax incentive was enacted in 2017 as a part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA) to increase long-term investment in “qualified opportunity zones” (OZs), which are population census tracts in...more
As part of the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBBA),[1] Congress adopted the first substantive amendments to Section 1202[2]–which prescribes the qualified small business stock (QSBS) rules–in over a decade...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA). The OBBA established a new type of tax-advantaged savings account for minors, known as “Trump Accounts.” While the specific details of...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
On June 11, 2025 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) again extended the compliance date for the most recent Form PF amendments, providing a near four-month reprieve for...more
On 4 July 2025, the European Commission adopted a regulation (the “Delegated Regulation”) aimed at streamlining the European Union’s Taxonomy Regulation (the “Taxonomy Regulation”). These reforms are intended to ease...more