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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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Sep
29
2017
Banking Agencies Propose (Some) Regulatory Capital Relief for Most Banks Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nov
5
2018
California's Obscure Regulation of Share Exchange Tender Offers Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Oct
25
2021
Lending Money to a Friend, You Lose Both the Friend and the Money Nelson Mullins
Jan
17
2023
Weekly IRS Roundup January 9 – January 13, 2023 McDermott Will & Emery
Jan
20
2014
The Dodd-Frank Act and Municipal Advisor Rules Dickinson Wright PLLC
Apr
11
2014
SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) Introduces Continuing Disclosure Cooperation Initiative Hunton Andrews Kurth
Nov
3
2016
SEC Issues Investment Company Reporting Modernization Rules K&L Gates
Jun
14
2017
New Hampshire Exempts Bitcoin from Money Transmitter Regulation Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
18
2018
FCA and PRA Consider Crypto-Assets Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
15
2024
Lenders: Be Aware of Early Publication of Winding Up Petitions Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
7
2014
Division of Investment Management Issues Guidance Regarding Mixed and Shared Funding Orders Vedder Price
Oct
15
2015
Coming Down Pipeline: US Energy Credit Lines Face 35-40% Cuts Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
23
2016
SEC Adopts Higher Net Worth Threshold for Qualified Clients under the Advisers Act Proskauer Rose LLP
Feb
17
2017
SEC Interpretive Letter Permits Brokers to Charge Commissions on Sales of “Clean Shares” of Mutual Funds Vedder Price
Mar
8
2018
Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies Insurance Company is Not ‘Financial Institution’ in Garnishment Law Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
21
2021
SEC and DOJ Bring Parallel Civil and Criminal Charges Against Five Russians for $82 Million Hack-And-Trade Scheme Winstead
Nov
2
2023
The UK’s PRA Discusses Securitisation Capital Requirements and Basel 3.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
29
2019
FINRA Files Proposed Rule Change to Public Communications and Research Reports Katten
Feb
14
2020
FINRA Requests Comments on Proposed Amendments to CAB Rules Katten
May
13
2020
Employers That Repay PPP Funds by May 14 Are Eligible for Employee Retention Tax Credit Jones Walker LLP
Oct
30
2020
ESMA Adds UK Venues to Third-Country Trading Venues Under MiFIR and MiFID II Katten
Dec
11
2020
CFTC Interprets and Issues No-action Relief from Certain Clearing and Trade Execution Requirements & Provides Further Brexit-Related Relief to Provide Market Certainty Katten
Mar
11
2024
Litigation Funding Series: CLF vs. Secured Lending and CLF vs. Consumer Litigation Finance Much Shelist, P.C.
Oct
2
2017
CFPB releases report on financial well-being of consumers and new consumer tool Ballard Spahr LLP
Jan
19
2023
SECURE 2.0 Series Part 4: Good News for Sponsors of Pension Plans Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jul
24
2014
Fifth Circuit Holds Deferred Compensation Plan Is Governed by ERISA Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb
27
2015
Is Anything Fishy With The SEC’s Whistleblower Inquiries? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
4
2016
SEC Adopts Amendments to Rules 147 and 504, Adopts Rule 147A and Repeals Rule 505 Katten
 

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