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DOJ’s recently released Annual Report highlights a significant increase in FCA enforcement, with nearly $3 Billion recovered—a 4.8% increase from FY 2023. The report also sheds light on major 2024 settlements and judgments...more
On January 28, 2025, FINRA issued its 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, providing a detailed look into FINRA’s current regulatory oversight of member firms and their registered personnel....more
Leveraging 40,000 anonymous ethics hotline reports and expansive customer interviews, Syntrio’s latest analysis uncovers trends in misconduct, reporting, and more...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Investor Advocate recently issued its fiscal year 2025 Report on Objectives. The Report is one of two annual reports required to be filed by the Investor Advocate with...more
On March 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its Consumer Response Annual Report, providing a high-level overview of the 1,657,600 consumer complaints received by the Bureau from January 1...more
The False Claims Act remains an effective enforcement tool for the Justice Department, obtaining judgments over $10 Billion in the last three fiscal years combined. While the FCA remains the primary vehicle for the government...more
On February 22, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual report of civil fraud recoveries for FY2023, along with a press release highlighting DOJ’s civil enforcement efforts. Our top ten observations from...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Enforcement (OE) recently issued its Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report on Enforcement. As in previous years, the Enforcement Report discusses the activities performed...more
El 14/08/23 se publicó la Revisión de Riesgos de la FDIC 2023. El informe “FDIC Risk Review 2023” resume las condiciones de la economía, los mercados financieros y la industria bancaria de los EE. UU. El informe proporciona...more
On 8/14/23, the FDIC Risk Review 2023 was published. The FDIC Risk Review 2023 report summarizes conditions in the U.S. economy, financial markets, and banking industry. The report provides a comprehensive summary of key...more
On 20 July 2023, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending March 2023 (the “Report”). The Report represents the first opportunity to assess progress made in the...more
The FCA released its 2022/23 Annual Report last week together with data on its key enforcement trends. We consider below some of the key takeaways....more
Below is our initial take on recent bankruptcy-related developments: Silvergate reported a $1 billion loss for the fourth quarter and said it is unable to meet an extended March 16 deadline for submitting its annual...more
The 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program was published on Jan. 10, 2023. In a statement accompanying the Report, Greg Ruppert, executive vice president of FINRA’s Member Supervision organization,...more
Ignoring integrity risks in emerging markets when receiving financing from the World Bank Group (WBG) is about to become much riskier, as the WBG Sanctions System Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) indicates. The...more
In this article, Joe Wielebinski and Matthias Kleinsasser of Winstead PC provide an overview of U.S. receivership law and discuss how this equitable remedy may be used to combat fraud alone, or in concert with other creditor...more
The Department of Justice recently issued its annual press release summarizing fraud-related recoveries from False Claims Act (FCA) matters in the prior fiscal year. While the headline number for FY 2020 of $2.2 billion in...more
On 21 July 2020 the National Crime Agency (“NCA”) released its Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20 (“the Report”). The Report outlines financial information and other data, and provides a snapshot of the NCA’s performance and...more
In March, OIG released its annual Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. MFCUs investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse and neglect and are jointly funded by the...more
On November 2, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or Commission) Division of Enforcement (the Division) released its annual report discussing enforcement-related actions and key initiatives (the...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower recently released its sixth Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program to Congress, which details information on the SEC’s activities and bounty...more