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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: An Insider’s View of the CFPB
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Auto Finance – The Holder Rule — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Understanding the CFPB's Rules for Risk-Based Nonbank Supervision — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Kirtz Decision: FCRA and Government Liability Unpacked — FCRA Focus Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Navigating the 2023 Regulatory Landscape — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Close Look at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Final Credit Card Late Fee Rule: Have Cardholders Been Dealt a Winning or Losing Hand?
Navigating Facility Relocation: Legal and Practical Considerations — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Tackling Credit Push Fraud: Understanding Nacha's Risk Management Package (Part One) — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
The CFPB's Rule to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Reports
Labour have won the general election, with a landslide victory of 412 seats. We address the question for financial services firms: what are their regulatory plans for financial services? Although their election manifesto was...more
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (“FSMA 2023”) marks a watershed moment in British legislative history. FSMA 2023 introduces sweeping changes to the financial services regulatory infrastructure and will have a...more
On 27 June 2023, the UK signed a long-awaited Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") with the European Union ("EU") to increase co-operation on financial services. The MoU has been a long time coming: regulatory cooperation...more
HM Treasury has published the text of the awaited draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) on UK-EU regulatory co-operation in financial services, which has already been adopted by the European Commission. The focus of the MoU...more
The UK's departure from the EU has created new uncertainties in EU-UK cross-border financial services. One such area is the regulatory landscape that EU and UK financial services firms will have to navigate when doing...more
The United Kingdom and the European Union have concluded technical discussions on the text of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) referred to in the Joint Declaration on Financial Services Regulatory Cooperation agreed...more
The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) provides for preferential arrangements in certain areas of trade between the EU and the UK, mainly in goods and continued access to related services such as transport and logistics....more
The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) does not provide a comprehensive free trade arrangement for financial services between the EU and the UK. In particular, the TCA contains no measures to offset the loss of the EU-wide...more
On December 24, 2020, the United Kingdom and the European Union concluded one of the largest trade deals in history, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). While the TCA regulates a number of important areas, it...more
Readers scanning the UK/EU trade deal on Christmas Eve will have looked in vain for a meaningful section on financial services. Instead, the UK asset management industry has been presented with something that looks very much...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: United Kingdom: HM Treasury is consulting on proposed insolvency changes for payment institutions and electronic money institutions, including a bespoke special...more
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The Council of the European Union has authorized the opening of negotiations with the U.K. for a new partnership agreement between the U.K. and the EU. The Council's Decision (dated February 13, 2020) authorizes the opening...more
The European Commission has published a Recommendation for a Decision by the Council of the European Union authorizing the opening of negotiations for a trade deal between the U.K. and the EU...more
The Financial Services (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2020 have been published by the U.K. Government. The Regulations delay the application of various financial services temporary permissions and transitional regimes...more
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming that Zuck & Co.’s use of facial recognition technology violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law. Though the settlement is little more than “a...more
The EU has granted the UK another extension for the Brexit process, giving Britain until January 31 to leave (unless its Parliament passes a divorce deal sooner)....more
Nike’s top dog, CEO Mark Parker, is stepping down at the beginning of 2020, to be replaced by board member and ServiceNow CEO John Donahoe. Parker, who will assume the role of executive chair when Donahoe takes over, has been...more
Launching the first phase of the Future Regulatory Framework Review, HM Treasury has issued a call for evidence on regulatory coordination in the financial services sector. The Financial Services Future Regulatory Framework...more
The upcoming enforcement of the MREL requirement will require European banks to issue a significant amount of subordinated and senior notes. But political instability and differing levels of investor demand could push up...more
UK Post-Brexit EU Financial Services Legislation - Shearman & Sterling today announces its publication in its Brexit Resource Center website of the U.K. post-Brexit versions of several key pieces of EU legislation and...more
After much deliberation, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that he, too, will withdraw from the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia next week. His announcement follows over a week of intrigue...more
The Situation: Delayed by two months, the long-awaited bill of President Macron's government relating to economic reforms and simplification of companies' day-to-day operations was tabled to the Cabinet on June 22, 2018....more
There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more
Tax reform, shifting international dynamics, Trump administration goals and a potentially strong market for transactions all seem likely to impact business activity in 2018. Below are 10 areas to explore in our 10th annual...more