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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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2020
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Aug
14
2016
SEC Penalizes Company For Severance Language Purportedly Impeding Complaints Proskauer Rose LLP
Apr
6
2017
#9: Customers’ Nonpublic Personal Information Protection - Top 10 Issues Facing Financial Institutions in 2017 ArentFox Schiff LLP
Mar
19
2020
The New York Department of Financial Services Requests Assurance From Regulated Financial Institutions and Insurance Carriers Regarding Their Preparedness to Respond to COVID-19 Crisis Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Aug
4
2020
FDIC Loosens Requirements for Employment With Financial Institutions Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
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29
2022
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Can I Get Some (Credit) Support? Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
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8
2023
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2016
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11
2018
FBAR Filing Deadline Further Extended Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Aug
23
2018
Senate Banking Committee Approves Kraninger Nomination Ballard Spahr LLP
Aug
16
2019
SEC Proposes to Modernize Business, Legal Proceedings and Risk Factor Disclosures Required by Regulation S-K Katten
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1
2020
U.S. Supreme Court Holds ERISA Defined Benefit Plan Participants Without Monetary Losses Lack Article III Standing to Assert Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims Proskauer Rose LLP
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2022
You’ve Been Served…Well, Virtually Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
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2
2023
Proposed Treasury Rules on Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship for Clean Energy Credits Incentivize Use of Project Labor Agreements Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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2022
Digital Markets Act Now Firmly on Its Way McDermott Will & Emery
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15
2014
Banks May Be Required to Increase Reserves Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
6
2015
CFPB Examines Bank Account and Service Complaints in Latest Monthly Report Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nov
2
2017
SEC Approves New Audit Reporting Standard Requiring Auditors to Disclose More Detailed Information Learned During the Audit Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
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9
2024
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9
2021
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19
2014
FINRA Proposes Rule Change to Codify Reporting Requirement for Accounts Acting in Concert Katten
Aug
5
2015
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Jul
26
2017
FCA Payment Services Rule Making Powers Extended K&L Gates
Jun
3
2012
ICI and Chamber Sue Commodity Futures Trading Commission "CFTC" Over Fund Adviser Rule ArentFox Schiff LLP
 

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