Predictions regarding the 2023 CRA Rule and Section 1071 and how to prepare for expected developments
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Everything You Want to Know About the CFPB as Things Stand Today, and Lots More - Part 1
FCPA Compliance Report: Death of CTA
2024 Payments Year in Review: CFPB and FTC Regulatory Trends – Part One — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Alan Kaplinsky’s “Fireside Chat” with Former CFPB Leader David Silberman: His Experience During the Prior Transition from the Obama Administration to Trump
SBA’s Final Rule Is Here: Key Takeaways on Updates to HUBZone Program, Other Small Business Programs, and Various Small Business Matters
Hidden Fees in the Live-Event Ticketing and Short-Term Lodging Industries
Podcast — Drug Pricing: What’s in the New CMS Medicaid Final Rule?
Director Review Under the USPTO's Final Rule – Patents: Post-Grant Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday®: After the Block - What’s Next for Employers and Non-Competes? - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Employment Law Now VIII-150 - The FTC Noncompete Rule is Dead: What Now?
ERISA Blog | Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rules A Primer for Self-Insured Group Health Plans
Sustainable Procurement: A Closer Look at the New Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
Employment Law Now VIII-145 – Status Update: Injunctions for FTC Non-Compete Ban and DOL Overtime Exemption Regs
Legal Alert | Reign It In: Federal Court Enjoins DOL's Expansion of Davis-Bacon Coverage
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What Banking Leaders Need to Know About the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling That the CFPB’s Funding Mechanism is Constitutional Part I
Unpacking FERC's Transmission Planning and Permitting Final Rules
The Burr Broadcast: Key Differences Between PWFA and ADA
DOL’s Expanded Overtime Salary Limits, EEOC’s Sexual Harassment Guidance, NY’s Mandatory Paid Prenatal Leave - Employment Law This Week®
The FTC Issued a New Rule to Ban All New Noncompete Agreements
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s action in March 2025 to end its defense of the final climate-related disclosure rules (Climate Rules), the Attorneys General of Massachusetts and other states...more
On April 11, 2025, a new rule went into effect in which the United States government will start to strictly enforce the requirement that foreign nationals register their presence with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...more
On March 31, 2025, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee (Committee) penned a letter to acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mark Uyeda identifying 14 proposed and final rules that, according to the...more
In March of 2024, we reported on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s adoption of a comprehensive set of rules governing climate-related disclosures. The rules would require public companies to disclose climate-related...more
On March 10, 2025, the SEC voted along party lines to amend SEC regulations in order to rescind the SEC’s delegation of authority to the Director of the Division of Enforcement to issue formal orders of investigation. The SEC...more
On February 7, 2025, the SEC issued a one-year exemption from compliance with new Rule 13f‑2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and related reporting on new Form SHO. The SEC adopted Rule 13f-2 and the Form SHO...more
Three years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a nearly 500 page rule proposal that would require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual...more
On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its final rule rescinding the delegation of authority that had allowed the SEC’s Director of the Division of Enforcement’s (“Director”) to “issue...more
To issue a subpoena for documents or testimony, Enforcement staff must first obtain a formal order. A formal order authorizes SEC staff “to administer oaths and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take...more
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a one-year extension of the compliance dates for its clearing mandate for certain US Treasury cash and repurchase (repo) transactions, in...more
On February 11, 2025, Mark T. Uyeda, the acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, took action with respect to The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate Disclosures for Inventors rule, which was adopted...more
In early March 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) finalized its climate-related disclosures rule (The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors) (the “Final Rule”)....more
As previously reported in our last post, The Fate of the New U.S. Climate Change Rules Under the New Republican Administration, legal challenges to the SEC’s rules mandating extensive new climate change disclosure is ongoing...more
The recent rule and form amendments adopted by the SEC to facilitate the registration of registered index-linked annuities (RILAs) and market-value adjustment annuities (MVAs) on Form N-4 have been broadly welcomed by the...more
Gary Gensler’s tenure as SEC chair can be remembered for an impressive number of rule proposals, many of which encountered vehement industry opposition or were challenged in court, struck down, or stayed....more
On January 2, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) published an order approving a proposed rule change filed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) to adopt the new FINRA Rule 6500...more
On 8 January 2025, the staff of the Division of Investment Management of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released an updated set of Frequently Asked Questions (the FAQs) related to the amendments to Rule...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) delayed the adoption of a final rule with respect to its June 2023 proposal (Proposal) to increase auditors’ responsibility to evaluate and disclose a public company’s...more
One of the most fundamental activities of an insured depository institution (IDI) is taking and safekeeping customer deposits. However, a recent proposed rulemaking by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) poses...more
The SEC recently released its Spring 2024 Reg. Flex Agenda, which is a list of upcoming SEC rule making activities, including both rule proposals and adoption of final rules....more
In a 3-0 decision issued today, June 5, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Court”) vacated the new private funds rule adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 23, 2023 (the “Rule”)....more
On June 5th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) final rule regarding the regulation of private fund advisers (the “Final...more
Congress directed the SEC to adopt a new registration statement for registered indexed annuities (RILAs) by the end of June. Several months ago, the SEC published its proposed registration statement and related rules. As we...more
The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically focusing on:...more
Seven months after our initial note on the subject, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on November 27, 2023 adopted Rule 192 (Rule 192 or the Final Rule)1 pursuant to Section 27B of the Securities...more