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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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Jan
13
2015
SEC Approves FINRA Rule Strengthening Background Checks Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
29
2019
Delaware enacts law providing financial relief to federal employees impacted by shutdowns Ballard Spahr LLP
Aug
10
2020
New Jersey’s Equine Statute: Balancing Inherent Risks and Public Safety Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
7
2022
Update on OFAC Cyber Sanctions List: Hydra and Garantex Robinson & Cole LLP
Mar
4
2013
Whatever Your Impression is About Venture Capitalists, Understand These 4 Things First Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Nov
24
2013
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Issues Guidance for Swap Execution Facilities Katten
Sep
19
2016
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Rule Would Prohibit Bank and Thrift Dealing and Investing in Industrial or Commercial Metals Katten
Nov
27
2017
Another Argument For Why Mick Mulvaney Is The CFPB Acting Director Ballard Spahr LLP
May
30
2018
D.C. issues second revision to student loan servicing regulations Ballard Spahr LLP
Sep
20
2018
Chancery Court Validates a Defective Merger and Reaffirms Reliance on Outside Legal Counsel Under Delaware Law K&L Gates
Feb
4
2022
How Inclusion Powers the Economy: Greenberg Traurig Courageous Conversation with Head of Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Pt. I [PODCAST] Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
7
2016
Eighth Circuit Reverses District Court for Ignoring Price-Impact Evidence That Rebutted the Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption and Defeated Class Certification Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
18
2017
As New Commissioners Come Onboard, CFTC Can Begin Moving Forward Covington & Burling LLP
Feb
2
2018
House passes bills to facilitate online banking, allow federal savings associations to exercise national bank powers Ballard Spahr LLP
Jan
10
2020
Is Coal A Mineral And Why Ask? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jun
13
2022
FTC Captures $2.7 Million in Restitution from Small Business Financer Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
27
2023
Hot Topics in Private M&A Transactions in the UK: Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Cash Is King and Bridging Value Gaps Katten
Aug
13
2012
Unregistered Broker-Dealers: Risky Business for EB-5 Developers Mintz
Jan
11
2016
New York State Tax Department Relaxes Investment Income Identification Rules McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
24
2020
NFA Published Amendments to Its Advertising Rules Katten
Oct
26
2023
Gensler Reveals SEC Received Record Number of Whistleblower Tips in FY 2023 Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
Dec
19
2022
Das Jahr neigt sich dem Ende – was erwartet uns Neues in 2023? McDermott Will & Emery
May
15
2015
FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council Strengthens Sanction Guidelines Related to Fraud and Suitability Katten
Sep
2
2015
Recent IRS Guidance Prohibits Lump-Sum Windows for Pension Retirees, Updates Pension Mortality Tables for 2016 McDermott Will & Emery
May
16
2019
OCC Wants Its Supervised Financial Institutions to Play In A Sandbox, Too! But Is It Worth It? Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
15
2021
FDIC Chair Blocks Majority Vote to Begin Review of Bank Merger Act Rules Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jan
31
2019
Australian Buy Now Pay Later Businesses Discuss Utility of Open Banking Regime K&L Gates
Aug
11
2020
Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP and European Civil Society Organizations Dedicated to Whistleblower Rights Provide Recommendations for Ireland’s New Whistleblower Law Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
 

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