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Regulatory Agencies with Financial Services

Readers can learn about new loan transactions, international trade agreements, mortgage loans and bank financing legislation, and other news as it unfolds in the US and around the world. Details that are covered by governmental and regulatory agencies including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), are routinely updated on the site. With ongoing agency news dealing with the CFPB, agency directors, and nominations to financial and banking agencies, the National Law Review constantly adds new cases and newsreaders want to remain informed about.

Global Financial Services

International banking and financial institutions news is also covered on the National Law Review. UK regulatory framework covered, including the Australian crowd-sourced funding regime, and EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), along with international insolvency, news, and legislation from around the world, which are linked to non-US foreign banks and institutions, are regularly published online.  Additionally, the legal experts at the National Law Review consistently offer updates on the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority and the effects of Brexit.

Financial Services and Innovation

The National Law Review also covers hot topics such as financial services law and FinTech (financial technology). Additionally, we cover topics like bitcoin, cryptocurrency transactions, SEC regulations, blockchain technologies, and compliance under finance laws like the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Additionally, cases and news which is governed under the Federal Reserve Act, the Fair Credit and Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Equal Credit Opportunity Act, are also analyzed in articles on the site.

Securities & the SEC

The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. The National Law Review covers news and updates coming out of the SEC, including information about updates on the US SEC EDGAR system and related requirements, rules designed to limit and enforce rules against Insider Trading and Anti-Money Laundering settlements. Additionally, analysis of the SEC Division of Investment Management leadership and proposed rulemakings.

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Recent Securities, SEC, & Financial Institution Law News

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Nov
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2020
What the Election Means for Banks Jones Walker LLP
Nov
12
2015
Illinois Federal Court Orders Plaintiffs to Pay Defendants’ $13.3 Million Appellate Costs in Lawrence E. Jaffe Pension Plan v. Household International Mintz
Nov
14
2016
Foreign Listed Stock Index Futures and Options Approval Chart November 2016 Katten
Apr
14
2020
New York Department of Financial Services Issues New Guidance Regarding COVID-19 Cybersecurity Risks Faegre Drinker
Jan
8
2021
CFTC Staff Provides Temporary Relief to Futures Commission Merchants Regarding Certain SOFR-Linked Investments Katten
Aug
15
2018
CFPB Collaborates to Create a Global Fintech Network with Regulators around the World Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
9
2020
Open Source-ish! What Defines Open Source and Why it Really Matters in Investments and Acquisitions Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
21
2020
Client Alert: The Main Street Lending Program Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Sep
12
2022
‘Rent-A-Legal-Expert’: How Financial Services Firms Are Capitalising On Interim Legal Talent Major Lindsey & Africa
Mar
14
2023
SEC Notice to Public Companies: Less-than-forthcoming Breach Disclosures Can Cost You Mintz
Apr
5
2018
Australia’s New AML Rules: Reducing the Anonymity of Digital Currencies K&L Gates
Apr
9
2019
FSB Releases its Directory of Crypto-Assets Regulators—In Anticipation of Upcoming G20 Meeting Robinson & Cole LLP
May
3
2024
Europe: New Funds May Apply for UK Overseas Fund Regime Recognition from September 2024 K&L Gates
Apr
1
2012
Second Circuit Clarifies Elements of a Domestic Securities Transaction Under Morrison v. National Australia Bank Bracewell LLP
Mar
23
2015
FINRA Issues Report on Cybersecurity Practices Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Mar
8
2016
Proposed “Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Nonretaliation Act” Aims to Increase Protections for Financial Industry Whistleblowers Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Apr
8
2021
SEC Creates Climate Change and ESG Website to Act as Central Hub for Agency Action and Information Jones Walker LLP
Dec
6
2018
Senate Confirms Kraninger as BCFP Director Covington & Burling LLP
Jul
29
2019
Complying with the SEC's New Requirements for InLine XBRL Tagging of Cover Page Information: Clarification Regarding Exhibit 104 Bracewell LLP
Sep
30
2021
New York Department of Financial Services Issues Proposed Rules Implementing Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws Katten
Mar
31
2022
The X Box: EEOC Announces Addition of Nonbinary Gender Option to Discrimination Charge Roetzel & Andress LPA
Oct
10
2023
Despite Admittedly "Problematic Provisions" Governor Newsom Signs Venture Capital Disclosure Bill Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Feb
14
2024
Senators Echo Calls for AML Whistleblower Program that Works for International Anti-Corruption Whistleblowers Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
Feb
15
2011
SEC Adopts Final “Say-On-Pay” Rules Vedder Price
Dec
2
2014
Financial Institutions May Post Online Privacy Disclosures Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Mar
15
2017
Conflict Minerals Rule Legal Challenge — Done and Done Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
13
2015
Monthly Futures Exchange Issuance Report: October 2015 Bracewell LLP
Nov
16
2016
SEC Shake-Up: President-Elect Trump Expected to Make Key Appointments Proskauer Rose LLP
 

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