Making Cents of Your Cash Management Agreements
Day 17 of One Month to More Effective Compliance for Business Ventures- Corporate Controller and Business Ventures
A recent cyberattack on a Michigan township has exposed weaknesses in the bond-closing process. In this incident, hackers stole over $25 million in bond proceeds by using spoofed email addresses to provide fraudulent wire...more
A recent court order issued in New York should concern any financial institutions that allow consumers to initiate wire transfers online. Financial institutions that allow consumers to execute wire transfers online should...more
On November 27, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit revived some of a bankruptcy litigation trustee’s fraudulent transfer claims stemming from the leveraged buyout of apparel retailer Nine West. The lawsuit...more
On November 12, the Fed’s Christopher Waller addressed a conference in New York City, discussing the roles of the private sector and the Fed in the payments ecosystem. Waller emphasized that while the private sector is...more
On November 8, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board voted to adopt new regulations for data broker registration requirements. The CPPA Board also voted to advance proposed rules for insurance companies,...more
North Korea Sanctions Violations - In a recent enforcement action, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed an $860,000 penalty on Vietnam Beverage Company Limited (“VBCL”), a...more
Business email compromise (“BEC”) occurs when a payee’s business email account is compromised or impersonated. The threat actor, posing as the payee or its representative (e.g., the head of the accounting department), sends...more
On 4 July 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published new guidelines on information requirements in relation to transfers of funds and certain cryptoasset transfers under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (the recast,...more
El 15 de abril de 2024, FinCEN, junto con el Servicio de Seguridad Diplomática (“DSS”) del Departamento de Estado de EE.UU., emitió una advertencia sobre el fraude con tarjetas pasaporte de EE.UU. mediante un Aviso a las...more
On 4/15/24, FinCEN in conjunction with the U.S Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), issued warning regarding U.S. Passport Card Fraud via Notice to financial institutions urging them to be vigilant in...more
The facts are an oft-told business email compromise horror story: a hacker interjects themselves into an email discussion of a business deal, changes the wire instructions to their own account, and disappears with the...more
Federal jurisdiction under the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (“GLBA”) is a patchwork, particularly for banks –the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency all...more
In this episode of Decision Dive, Balch’s Jason Tompkins, Chair of Balch & Bingham’s Issues & Appeals Practice, is joined by Conrad Anderson IV, partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice, to explore the Alabama Court of Civil...more
Does a lender have the right to foreclose its mortgage if a payoff of such mortgage is made by wire transfer, but the payment does not make it to the lender’s account? A recent case, heard on appeal by the New York Supreme...more
The construction industry’s rapid digital transformation has opened the door to new cybersecurity challenges. As the sector adopts innovative technologies like cyber-physical systems, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and...more
While at your place of business, you receive an email from a trusted source with an established vendor, notifying you that the vendor’s bank account information has changed. Do you note the change in your business records and...more
On April 20, 2023, the European Parliament announced that it had formally endorsed the draft Regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds and crypto assets (referred to here as the EU Travel Rule Regulation). The...more
After many delays, the European Parliament has approved the long-awaited proposed regulation on markets in cryptoassets (MiCA), alongside the proposed regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds and certain...more
When you hear the word cyberattack you think of attacks on banks, large box stores, or medical facilities. You should add the construction industry to that list because it is the third most common target for cyberattacks....more
On March 10, 2023, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the assets of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). In light of SVB’s closure, many venture firms and emerging companies are establishing new accounts with...more
With the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) takeover of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), we expect a number of entities to begin establishing new bank accounts and updating wire transfer information. This creates...more
Following the collapse and federal takeover of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on Friday, March 10, scam artists wasted no time preying on the bank’s customers. Reports have surfaced of an email scam that initially targeted...more
Have you ever wondered whether you were barking up the wrong tree? That the solution to a problem may be found, not in the approach to which you were already committed and invested, but in an altogether different direction?...more
Anyone who owns a cellphone or uses an email address has received a communication from a scammer seeking to extract confidential information or trick the recipient into sending money to foreign countries. These attempts come...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more