The Legal Tightrope: Surviving Parallel Investigations
Navigating Government Contracts: Diana Shaw on Oversight and Whistleblower Protections
From Court to Code: Smart Contracts and Arbitration
Episode 335 -- The New DOJ Whistleblower Program
Navigating Emerging Privacy Issues in Financial Services — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Implications of the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: SEC Suffers Dismissal of Claims in Solarwinds Securities Fraud Case
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
The Woody Report: The Solar Winds Dismissal
In That Case: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: Deep Dive into The SEC’s Settlement with R&R Donnelly on Cybersecurity Controls
Episode 332 -- Deep Dive into SEC’s Internal Controls and Cybersecurity Settlement with R&R Donnelly
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Jarkesy’s Implications for the Administrative State
DE Under 3: OFCCP Must Shut Down its Administrative Court Prosecutions as a Result of SCOTUS’ SEC Jury Trial Case Decision
Dogecoin’s Day in Court
Unpacking the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act: Implications for the Digital Asset Industry — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Podcast: Is Cryptocurrency a Security (like an orange grove)?
Navigating the Regulatory Waters: The SEC's Wells Notice to Uniswap and its Impact on DeFi — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: Federal Legislative Developments and OFAC Consent Orders — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Compliance into the Weeds: The WACKO Enforcement Action Involving BF Borgers
August 9, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading...more
July 30, 2024 - The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) approved a notice of proposed rulemaking, which if implemented, will effectively roll back significant portions of 2020’s...more
June 13, 2024- President Joe Biden nominated current Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero to be Chair and Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. June 13, 2024 - ...more
April 11, 2024- U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) introduced the bipartisan Ransomware and Financial Stability Act....more
March 8, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board announced a final rule that updates risk management requirements systemically important financial market utilities supervised by the Board....more
March 6, 2024- Chairman Patrick McHenry and Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chairman Andy Barr sent a letter on behalf of all Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee to Fed Chair...more
Congress continues to plug along on crypto policy. The Senate’s attention – on a bipartisan basis – has been focused on extending Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory authority to the digital assets space. This continues to...more
December 15, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Baking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chair Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), along with Senators John Kennedy (R-LA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Mike Braun (R-IN), and...more
December 7, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Banking Committee Republicans are calling on Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin...more
December 4, 2023- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen addressed the Climate Investment Funds Panel, "Scaling Up Just Energy Transitions to Enable Industry Decarbonization." She highlighted that the Treasury has...more
October 12, 2023- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Justice Department issued a joint statement that reminds financial institutions that all credit applicants are protected from discrimination on the basis of...more
September 11, 2023- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data released the August 2023 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that inflation expectations were largely stable, rising...more
July 26, 2023- The Department of Justice, Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a joint compliance note focusing...more
July 11, 2023- The U.S. House Financial Services Committee announced the following hearing: National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee Hearing Entitled: "Potential...more
June 21, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing on the following nominations: •The Honorable Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, to be Vice Chairman of the...more
June 13, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-Annual Report to Congress."...more
June 12, 2023 The Accountability Through Confirmation Act and the Protecting Small Business Information Act have each been introduced to reform the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)....more
March 7, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress." March 7, 2023- U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of...more
November 14, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), alongside the U.S. Department of State, sanctioned a transnational network procuring technology that supports the Russian...more
November 9, 2022- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog post entitled, "A Closer Look at Chinese Overseas Lending."...more
November 3, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued three additional notices requesting public input on key climate and clean energy tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act....more
October 20, 2022- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Acting Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg delivered remarks on the prudential regulation of crypto-assets at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C....more
September 9, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security and its Minister of Intelligence for engaging in cyber-enabled...more
Major Developments- Federal Reserve Board- Federal Reserve Board releases results of annual bank stress test- June 23, 2022- The Federal Reserve Board released the results of its annual bank stress test....more
Federal Agencies- U.S. Department of the Treasury- U.S. Treasury Severs More Networks Providing Support for Putin and Russia's Elites-...more