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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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Dec
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2016
Trump Administration: Potential Levers of Regulatory Change Affecting Commodities Markets Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Aug
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2017
Trump Administration Proposes Delay of Fiduciary Rule to July 1, 2019 Holland & Hart LLP
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30
2019
The SEC's Resource Extraction Rule - A Long Time Coming Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
19
2021
What Labor Nominee Martin Walsh Means for the Future of the Fiduciary Rule Bracewell LLP
Feb
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2024
Not Done Yet: Australia’s Odyssey Into Regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI) K&L Gates
Apr
24
2016
Did the Banking Regulators Cite Hundreds of Violations in Error? Vedder Price
Aug
30
2019
U.S. Senator Paul Seeks to Overturn Recent Obama-Era EB-5 Regulations Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
21
2022
Account Freezing and Forfeiture Orders: is the FCA waking up to its investigative powers? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
20
2015
California, Nevada and 38 Other States Have These, But Delaware Doesn’t - Intermediate Courts of Appeal Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
24
2019
The Impact of the Government Shutdown on S.E.C. Enforcement Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
22
2020
Administering a Trust In a Recession: Issues Surrounding Trust Loans to Beneficiaries Winstead
Oct
7
2021
NIGC Issues New Guidance on Financing Document Reviews and Declination Letters Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
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Key Employee Benefit Considerations for Private Equity Acquisitions McDermott Will & Emery
May
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2015
Fitbit Files for IPO: Cybersecurity Risk Disclosure Mintz
Sep
14
2018
FCA Publishes Approach to Becoming UK-Recognized Overseas Investment Exchange & FCA Releases New Video on Senior Managers and Certification Regime Katten
Aug
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SEC Adopts Large Trader Reporting System Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jan
8
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OFAC Takes Further Action Related to Crimea - Office of Foreign Assets Control Faegre Drinker
Nov
20
2017
SEC Staff Denies Request for No-Action Relief Concerning Allocation of Certain Fund of Fund Operating Expenses to Underlying Funds in the Same Fund Family Vedder Price
May
23
2018
What Expenses Can We Pay from Plan Assets? A Brief Review of the Legal Principles and Some Common Questions Faegre Drinker
Mar
25
2020
Loan Modifications Related to COVID-19 Jones Walker LLP
Apr
7
2022
Vehicle Sales Continue Their Depression Foley & Lardner LLP
Oct
2
2014
California Becomes First State to Require Credit Monitoring Services Information Following a Data Breach Jackson Lewis P.C.
Sep
6
2016
Significant Changes to Form ADV and Performance Advertising Rules Adopted Katten
Aug
11
2017
Volcker Rule Reform—Is There Any There, There? Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jan
2
2020
SDNY Rejects Director Liability for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Claims, Creating a Split Among Federal District Courts Polsinelli PC
Jun
28
2021
New Jersey Shareholder Oppression: Mismanagement Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Mar
22
2023
SVB Financial Group Chapter 11 Case – Issues with the FDIC May Be Front and Center Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Feb
22
2024
Address Cyber-risks From Quantum Computing Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
 

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