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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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Feb
11
2022
SEC Staff Issues Statement on LIBOR Transition with Key Considerations for Market Participants Vedder Price
Nov
1
2023
Inadvertent Errors and Tax Hedge Identification ASKramer Law
Mar
6
2024
Part 1: The Margin Adequacy Requirement under CFTC Rule 1.44 Generally Blank Rome LLP
Dec
20
2021
PPP Funds Doled Out to Fake Employees: $35 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme Tycko & Zavareei LLP
Jun
3
2020
Expanding the Safe Harbor for (Certain) Electronic Disclosures Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jun
1
2012
The Final 408(b)(2) Regulation: Impact on Broker-Dealers Faegre Drinker
Jul
6
2013
Priority of Ownership and Security Interests in a Repossession Scenario Vedder Price
Aug
7
2015
SEC Finalizes the CEO Pay Ratio Rule – Additional Executive Compensation Disclosure for Public Companies Beginning in 2017 Mintz
Apr
6
2016
FDIC Chairman Gruenberg Announces Initiative to Promote New Bank Charters; New Supplementary Guidance on Deposit Insurance Applications Announced Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Apr
10
2017
Bridging the Week: April 3-7 and 10, 2017 (Advancing Nominee; Third Party Funds’ Transfers; Record Retention) [VIDEO] Katten
Jan
16
2018
Treasury to recommend CRA changes Ballard Spahr LLP
Aug
29
2018
New Service Brings Student Loan Repayment to Employer Retirement Plans The National Law Review / The National Law Forum LLC
Oct
22
2021
CFTC Shows Whistleblowers the Money: Implications of Record $200 Million Award Zuckerman Law
Aug
30
2023
Understanding the Crypto Ripple Effect Ankura
Feb
5
2013
Private Equity Beware: Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Official Predicts Increased Scrutiny, Enforcement Action in 2013 Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
May
16
2014
Conflict Minerals Rule Update: D.C. Circuit Court Denies Request for Stay Hunton Andrews Kurth
Dec
14
2016
Supreme Court Finds Bank Fraud Need Not Target Banks; Resolves Circuit Split in Prosecutors’ Favor K&L Gates
Aug
19
2019
Second Circuit Finds McDonnell ‘Official Acts’ Standard Inapplicable to FCPA Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
18
2019
OZ Flash: Newly Issued Proposed Regulations and the Administration’s Remarks are a Boon to the OZ Incentive K&L Gates
Sep
30
2020
Stewardship Code 2020: Early Reporting Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
2
2023
Youth Online Safety in the Crosshairs with NTIA Comment Request and Joint AG Meta Complaint Keller and Heckman LLP
Mar
7
2024
Ten States Sue to Block SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Before the Ink is Dry Mintz
Apr
17
2015
US Sentencing Commission Revises Sentencing Guidelines for Fraud Katten
Nov
8
2017
Prosecutor Kenneth A. Blanco Named as Incoming Head of FinCEN Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
20
2020
COVID-19: Tax Considerations in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic - Part 1 K&L Gates
Dec
19
2014
Agencies Amend Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Coverage Ratio Rules Katten
Aug
16
2016
SEC Fines Company $265,000 for Severance Agreements that Potentially Chilled Whistleblowers Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
4
2018
SEC Announces Launch Of SALI; What About The States? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
 

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