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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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Jun
16
2020
Can’t Have it Both Ways: Court Strikes Down Defamation Claims After Plaintiff Says Furnishers Weren’t Furnishing Information (But Lets FCRA Claims Through on Permissible Purpose Grounds) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
30
2022
CFPB Sets Out Rulemaking Agenda Jones Walker LLP
Oct
26
2023
How to Deal with Retainage on Alabama Public Projects Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Mar
1
2024
CFPB Issues Risk-Based Supervision Order Against Installment Lender Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
10
2014
Independent PayPal Could Be Target for Acquisition McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
21
2016
SEC Approves FINRA Pay-to-Play Rules: Investment Adviser Third-Party Solicitor Pay-to-Play Rule to Finally Go Effective Faegre Drinker
Jan
19
2017
CFTC Commissioner Giancarlo Forecasts Swap Market Reforms Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
11
2016
Did Utah’s Securities Commission Really Call Out California’s Commissioner? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
10
2016
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Targets Mandatory Arbitration Clauses to Protect Consumer Class Actions Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Dec
1
2017
The EU PRIIPs Regulation for Fund Managers Katten
Feb
4
2019
UK FCA New Guidance on Cryptoassets K&L Gates
Mar
27
2020
ESMA Publishes Statement on MiFID II Telephone Conversation Requirements During the COVID-19 Pandemic Katten
Dec
7
2020
SEC Adopts Amendments to MD&A and Other Financial Disclosures Katten
Oct
20
2021
Asia Q4 Checkin: Living with Covid, Supply Chain and China’s Crackdown on Its Free Market Experiments with Paul Kim [PODCAST] Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
10
2022
SEC Proposes Significant Money Market Fund Reforms Vedder Price
Jan
7
2023
NAV Financing – What Was Old Is New Again Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Aug
24
2023
White House Finalizes Long-awaited Build America, Buy America, (BABA) Guidance Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
24
2017
The OCC Rejects Operation Chokepoint in Letter to Chairman Hensarling Covington & Burling LLP
Feb
6
2018
CFPB reportedly puts investigation of Equifax on ice while other government agencies press forward Ballard Spahr LLP
Jan
10
2020
Fifth Money Laundering Directive Becomes Operational Katten
Jun
21
2023
Four Key Considerations Since SEC Amended Form PF Katten
Mar
8
2013
Non-Marital Values of Accounts in a Divorce Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Jan
23
2015
CFPB Finalizes Minor Changes to “Know Before You Owe” Mortgage Rules Katten
Jan
8
2024
Missouri Court Denies Dismissal of SIFMA Challenge to Missouri’s Anti-ESG Rules for Financial Advisers Proskauer Rose LLP
Jun
17
2020
Best Interest Standard of Care for Advisors #29 Faegre Drinker
Aug
17
2020
American Airlines 401(k) Plan Not Required To Offer Stable Value Fund Proskauer Rose LLP
Jul
1
2022
Class Action Trends Report: Other Class Action Developments Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct
27
2023
How to Account for an Account Switch Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
 

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