Podcast - Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector, Part 2
Business Integrity Innovations: The Commercial Approach to Anti-Corruption: Insights from Dr. Maximilian Burger-Scheidlin
Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance Expertise on Board
Compliance Tip of the Day: Board Compliance Committee
Great Women in Compliance – Neta Meidav on Bridging the Trust Gap
Compliance into the Weeds: DOGE and Compliance
Daily Compliance News: December 4, 2024 – The So It Begins Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Boards and Operationalizing Compliance
Daily Compliance News: December 3, 2024-the Under Pressure Edition
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: LRN’s Code of Conduct Survey
Daily Compliance News: December 2, 2024 – The Committed to Compliance Edition
Career Can Do: From Family Dream to a Lasting Legacy with Jessica Levinev
FCPA Compliance Report – Adrian Roux on South Africa’s New Compliance Legislation and Its Global Impact
Episode 347 -- LRN's Code of Conduct Survey
Riskology By Infortal™: Episode 37 – Boots on Deck: Managing Maritime Risk with Joshua Hutchinson from AMBREY
FCPA Compliance Report – Episode 737 – Navigating Compliance in a Trump Presidency: Insights and Concerns
Sunday Book Review: November 24, 2024 – The Thanksgiving Mysteries Edition
Fox on Podcasting – Unleashing Creativity and Profit Through Podcast Seasons
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending November 23, 2024
Compliance Tip of the Day – Policy Week: Extortion Payments
On 14 November 2024, a number of amendments to: the Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129) ("PR"); the Market Abuse Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 596/2014) ("MAR"); and the Markets in Financial...more
The Polsinelli Blockchain+ team took a break from the usual Bi-Weekly updates for the Thanksgiving holiday, but the Web3 legal developments did not. There was a significant ruling out of the 5th Circuit, which has major...more
The following article is part four of our series on the 2022 Amendments to the UCC. You can find the previous articles here. Our last article explored the amendments to the main definition of “money” in Article 1 of the UCC....more
The Israel Securities Authority published a position statement recently addressing various issues pertaining to brokerage activities and offerings of joint investment arrangements, including the applicability of the...more
The election of Donald Trump as president could have a significant impact on the crypto industry given his campaign promise of a procrypto administration. Trump will be able to appoint a new chair of the U.S. Securities and...more
On November 19, Pennsylvania Representative Mike Cabell (R-117) introduced legislation to form the Pennsylvania Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, aiming to diversify the state’s financial holdings by allocating up to 10% of its...more
As deals increase in complexity, and ownership structures are oftentimes opaque and obfuscated, it is important to be mindful of CFIUS’s continued stance of requesting identities of Limited Partners (LPs) in transactions...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published feedback to its December 2023 advice guidance boundary review. The review included a number of proposals to improve how people can access help with their pensions and retail...more
HM Treasury has published remits and recommendations for the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, set out in a letter sent from Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Nikhil Rathi, FCA...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has issued a discussion paper on potential options for improving the U.K. transaction reporting regime. The FCA has two primary objectives: to improve the usefulness of transaction...more
The PRA and FCA are consulting on new proposals to simplify the UK remuneration regime and make it more proportionate for banks. Changes would reduce the number of material risk takers (MRTs) subject to the rules, simplify...more
HM Treasury has published a letter from Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, setting out the remit and recommendations for the Financial Policy Committee for 2024/25....more
On November 28, 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) published the guideline on Digital Bond Grant Scheme (DBGS). As acknowledged in the 2024 Policy address, the DBGS is part of the Hong Kong Government and HKMA’s...more
December 4, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance.”...more
On September 27, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted rule and form amendments to enhance the security and account management of its electronic filing system called EDGAR (i.e., Electronic Data...more
December 3, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule addressing data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive personal and financial information....more
In recent years, the OSC and other regulatory bodies began signaling to public markets that regulators intended to crack down on what they termed abusive short-sellers. Against this backdrop, the OSC brought enforcement...more
Wilson Sonsini’s 2024 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report reviews the corporate governance practices and disclosures of the Valley's largest public companies between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The...more
As widely reported, former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins (2002-2008) is to be nominated to serve as SEC Chair. This WSJ op-ed describes him as the “anti-Gensler”—the “opposite of Mr. Gensler in temperament and regulatory...more
In the second part of "Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector," hosts Misha Lehrer, Dan Sennott, and Simon Coon discuss the anticipated changes in U.S. defense policy...more
Former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins has been selected as the new SEC Chair nominee. Paul served as a Commissioner from 2002 to 2008 and was a staffer at the SEC during the ’90s....more
Cryptocurrency mining company BIT Mining Ltd. has agreed to pay a combined penalty of US$10 million to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for engaging in a scheme to bribe...more
The Cayman Islands is the most common non-US jurisdiction for listed entities - Entities established in 47 different jurisdictions are currently listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq. Of these different jurisdictions, outside of...more
There is a growing trend for large UK-based companies to consider exploring listings on US stock exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ, potentially at the expense of the London Stock Exchange plc...more
As we lurch toward the end of the year, it’s a good time to take stock of our lives. But also, it’s kind of nifty to compare where we are with shareholder proposals compared to a decade ago. This 13-page report from ISS...more
