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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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CFTC Releases No-Action Position on PCAOB Requirement to Communicate Critical Audit Matters Katten
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18
2022
DOJ and Treasury Announce Multilateral Russian Oligarch Task Force Called “REPO” ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
11
2011
SEC Adopts Rules Exempting Venture Capital Fund Advisers from SEC Registration and Setting Forth Reporting Regime Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Aug
11
2015
Merlin Partners v. AutoInfo: Merger Price and Process Key in Determining Appraisal Value Vedder Price
Dec
18
2016
Innocent Intermediary: Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. XII [VIDEO] Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
May
1
2019
The Crypto Paradox: Code is Law and Consensus Rules Bracewell LLP
Nov
23
2021
2021 SEC Enforcement Results – Takeaways for Fund Managers Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
20
2022
The Digital Equity Act Keller and Heckman LLP
Feb
27
2023
The Long and Short of Short Selling Nishith Desai Associates
Sep
17
2021
Greater Diversity and Inclusion on Listed Company Boards: FCA Proposals Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
17
2022
It's Ultra-Complicated: Fifth Circuit and Delaware Bankruptcy Court Decisions Widen Rifts on Make-Whole Premiums and Postpetition Interest ArentFox Schiff LLP
Dec
1
2023
Binance to Pay Historic $4 Billion Fine ArentFox Schiff LLP
Dec
20
2019
Opportunity Zone Final Regulations: First Impressions K&L Gates
Nov
19
2020
SEC Adopts Final Rules Improving and Harmonizing the Exempt Offering Framework Jones Walker LLP
May
12
2021
Payment Card Rules v. PCI DSS: District Court Opens the Door to Potential Data Breach Tort Liability Based on Common Law Duties and Section 5 of the FTC Act Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Sep
25
2023
Someone's Knockin' At The Door, But It May Not Be The DFPI Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
14
2013
What the SEC’s Elimination of the Prohibition on General Solicitation for Rule 506 Offerings Means to the EB-5 Community Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep
23
2014
Solar Investment Booms in Sub-Saharan Africa Covington & Burling LLP
Aug
25
2016
SEC Overrules Its Own Administrative Law Judge to Clear Customer of Fraud Charges Proskauer Rose LLP
Nov
14
2017
Proposed Bill to Assess Chinese Acquisitions of US Financial Services Company and Temporarily Halt Pending Acquisitions Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
14
2019
Commentaries Bridging the Week by Gary DeWaal: January 7 – 11 and January 14, 2019 (Freedom of Speech; Cryptoasset Regulation Gaps; Cybersecurity) Katten
May
23
2022
Banks Set to Abandon SPAC Market as SEC Proposes New Rules Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
May
23
2023
New Conference, More Rulemaking? K&L Gates
Jul
13
2012
SEC Finalizes Dodd-Frank Independence Rules Under Section 952 McDermott Will & Emery
Dec
14
2015
First Circuit Overturns SEC Ruling in Flannery v. SEC Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Apr
18
2016
Business Conduct; CCOs; HFTs; Suspense Accounts; Customer Reserve Accounts; More Money: Bridging the Week: April 11 - 18 [VIDEO] Katten
Apr
13
2017
Mutual Capital Certificates—A Potential Capital-Raising Alternative Jones Walker LLP
Sep
5
2018
Watch Out, Small Commercial Lending Might Soon Become A lot More Complicated! Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
 

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