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The Financial institutions and banking sectors are highly regulated in the US and throughout the world with stiff penalties for failure to comply with regulations. The National Law Review addresses legal issues, compliance concerns, financial regulatory schemes, broker-deals, insolvency and restructuring, and structured transaction negotiations.

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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CFPB Orders Companies to Provide Information on "Buy Now, Pay Later" Credit Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
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17
2016
SEC Enforcement Action Finds Confidentiality and Waiver Provisions in Severance Agreement Violate Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protections ArentFox Schiff LLP
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1
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Does New York's Martin Act Conflict With California's Blue Sky Law? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
15
2023
Your Insurer Is In Receivership – Now What? Receiverships in North Carolina Ward and Smith, P.A.
Apr
10
2016
ESMA Publishes Final UCITS V Remuneration Guidelines Katten
Nov
2
2017
SEC Approves PCAOB’s Proposal to Significantly Change the Form of Audit Opinion Jones Walker LLP
Jan
12
2018
FINRA Releases 2018 Regulatory and Examination Priority Letter Katten
Aug
15
2019
HUD Throws in the Towel on Down Payment Assistance Revisions Ballard Spahr LLP
May
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First Bankruptcy Filed by a Public Pension Fund Mintz
Feb
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DC Court of Appeals Decision May Impact Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Powers and Authority Katten
Dec
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2015
Happy Holidays Financial Institutions, Less Privacy Paperwork in the New Year Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jan
8
2019
How to Report a Ponzi Scheme and Earn an SEC Whistleblower Award Zuckerman Law
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2022
Financial Regulatory & Compliance/Export Controls & Economic Sanctions Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
20
2014
DFS Superintendent Lawsky Discusses Revised BitLicense Framework Katten
Dec
7
2016
United Airlines Settles with SEC for Side-Stepping Its Own Anti-Corruption Controls: Management Override for a Ride Over to South Carolina Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Aug
27
2018
Seventh Circuit Requires a Defendant Seeking Removal To Establish the Plaintiffs’ Article III Standing Foley & Lardner LLP
Nov
16
2020
SEC Adopts Rule Amendments to Improve Exempt Offering Framework Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
28
2023
DAO Deemed ‘General Partnership’ in Negligence Suit over Crypto Hack, Prompting Decentralized Orgs to Rethink Corporate Formation Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
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2014
Scottish independence — the Currency Conundrum Covington & Burling LLP
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3
2020
Retirement Plan Participants and Standing: Supreme Court’s New ‘No Harm, No Foul’ Ruling Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Sep
25
2020
Two International Whistleblowers Issued Awards from SEC Totaling $2.5 Million Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
Dec
17
2021
CAT Participants Withdraw Revised Funding Model Proposal Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mar
22
2024
Shining a Light on European “Security-Lite” Financings Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
May
10
2014
Federal Election Commission (FEC) Approves Bitcoin Political Donations While SEC Issues Investor Alert Katten
Aug
19
2016
City of London Law Society and Joint Working Parties Publish Second EU Market Abuse Regulation Q&A Katten
Nov
16
2023
Part II: NFT Lending — Legal Issues Involving Secured Transactions under the UCC, Pre- and Post-Article 9 and 12 Amendments Proskauer Rose LLP
Apr
12
2016
Private Equity Funds, Controlled Groups, and Multi-Employer Plan Withdrawal Liability: Lessons of Sun Capital Partners vs. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund Mintz
Jan
16
2018
The Outlook for UK Regulatory Disputes in 2018 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
 

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