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31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 23 - Investigative Protocols
Daily Compliance News: January 23, 2025 The Can’t Sue The Zoo Edition
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 22 - Levels of Due Diligence
Great Women in Compliance - The Future of the Profession
Compliance into the Weeds: The CSBS and State-Level Enforcement Actions in AML
Daily Compliance News: January 22, 2025, The All Bloomberg Edition
SBR – Author’s Podcast – Exploring the Future of Work, Ethics, and Compliance with Kelly Monahan, Part 1
Sunday Book Review: January 19, 2025, The Business Ethics from the Ancient Greeks Edition
Sunday Book Review: January 12, 2025 – The Top Business Books Coming in 2025 Edition
Great Women in Compliance: Compliance, Consistency and Agility with Lisa Beth Lentini Walker
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 21-Managing 3rd Parties
SBR – Author’s Podcast: Exploring the Future of Work, Ethics, and Compliance with Kelly Monahan, Part 2
Innovation in Compliance: Navigating Accounting and Compliance with Mike Whitmire
Daily Compliance News: January 21, 2025, The Not Real Work Edition
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 20 – Third-Party Risk Management Process
Episode 352 -- Review of 2024 DOJ and SEC Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance
31 Days for a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 19 – Evaluating the Risk Management Process
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 18 – Risk Assessments
Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you compliance related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee and listen in to the Daily Compliance News....more
2024 was an active year in the class action arena. In this post, our Litigation group in Toronto discusses noteworthy developments over the past twelve months. While our focus is on cases and other developments affecting...more
This edition of the Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in the second half of 2024. Global Market Update - In...more
On January 10, 2025, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations related to two new catch-up contribution provisions under the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0): (1) the...more
On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously approved changes to the premerger filings required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. The new rules go into effect on February 10, 2025, after which any...more
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Members of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP’s Government Investigations and White Collar Practice attended a Cornerstone Research event on December 11, 2024, about the outlook for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in...more
Yesterday, SEC Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda launched a crypto task force to develop a “comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets.” Commissioner Hester Peirce – dubbed “Crypto Mom” by the industry for her...more
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced new, higher, premerger Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds and higher filing fees for some transactions, which will take effect on February 21, 2025. The new...more
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Last week, Nasdaq filed a proposed rules change with the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove the board diversity rule from Nasdaq's Listing Rules....more
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On this episode of Raising Capital 101, Tom Voekler is joined by colleagues Mehanna Borostyan and John Watson to dig deeper into Rule 506 offerings under Regulation D and survey the differences between Rule 506(b) and Rule...more
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