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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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Oct
5
2013
SEC Awards More Than $14 Million to Whistleblower Faegre Drinker
Oct
30
2015
Federal Reserve Issues Guidance on Waiving of Examinations Prior to Membership or Merger Into a State Member Bank Katten
Oct
1
2022
Readout of Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) Task Force Deputies Meeting The U.S. Department of Justice
Jul
10
2015
Ninth Circuit Disagrees with Second Circuit on Personal-Benefit Requirement for Insider Trading Proskauer Rose LLP
Jul
12
2016
Securities: Is Rule 10b-5 The “Mother Of All Litotes”? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Dec
1
2018
CFTC Issues Primer on Smart Contracts Covington & Burling LLP
Jul
25
2019
Possible Delay of CECL for Certain Small Banks and Nonpublic Entities Jones Walker LLP
Jun
27
2022
DFPI Proposes Rules For Commercial Financial Products And Services Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Mar
30
2023
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Banking & Financial Services Newsletter Jones Walker LLP
Mar
20
2015
Stock and Asset Sales: Tax Consequences of Each Transaction McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Mar
1
2016
CFTC Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee Meeting Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Nov
7
2016
SEC Adopts Changes to Regulation D and Intrastate Offerings and Proposes Use of “Universal Proxy Cards” in Contested Director Elections Polsinelli PC
Aug
11
2018
GFXC Publishes Updated Version of Its FX Global Code Katten
Jun
16
2023
The European Banking Authority’s Guidelines on Resolvability Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Oct
23
2023
T-218 Until T+1: Considerations for Investment Advisers K&L Gates
Nov
26
2014
Standby to Safeguard Payment re: Asset and Business Acquisitions and Disposals in Oil and Gas Companies Hunton Andrews Kurth
Mar
29
2018
Student loan servicers seek to clarify federal preemption of state student loan servicing regulations in suit to enjoin Washington, D.C. law Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
4
2013
Federal Reserve Announces Dates for Release of Stress Test and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) Results Katten
Feb
18
2014
UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Issues First Fine Under New Anti-Money Laundering Regime Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
May
19
2020
Business Unusual For Financial Services Firms – Returning to New Variations of "the Workplace" Katten
Apr
8
2019
Illinois Supreme Court Rules Annuities Are Not Securities Under Illinois Securities Act Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Nov
22
2019
Court Dismisses Plaintiffs’ Excessive Fee Claim against Mutual Fund Adviser Following Trial Vedder Price
Mar
29
2020
The CARES Act: What Does It Mean for Financial Institutions? Vedder Price
Mar
16
2021
American Rescue Plan Act Expands PPP Eligibility - Modifies Loan Forgiveness and Adds Funding for Online Publishers, Restaurants and Shuttered Venues Polsinelli PC
Jul
13
2015
FINRA Proposes Changes to the Reporting Requirements for TRACE-Eligible Securities Katten
Jul
14
2016
SEC Tweaks In-House Court Rules Faegre Drinker
Mar
10
2017
FINRA Proposes Rule to Revise Qualification and Registration Requirements Katten
Feb
10
2021
Breaking Down the New EU ESG Disclosure Regulation: One Month to Go Proskauer Rose LLP
 

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