What’s in Your Operating Agreement? Legal Tips for Healthcare Providers
Nonprofit Quick Tips: State Filings in Alabama and Arkansas
Avoiding a Bored Board
Compliance Tip of the Day: Rethinking Corporate AI Governance Through Design Intelligence
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework - Part 5, People
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 4, Culture
Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 2, Oversight
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 1, Introduction
Daily Compliance News: July 14, 2025, The Secret Business Sauce-Reading Edition
Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 11, 2025, The What is a COI Edition
Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 5 – Monitoring Activities
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 4 - Control Information and Communication
Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter, a publication containing updates about legal developments in the United States that may be noteworthy to our clients and other leaders in the Japanese...more
On February 19, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, and Acting Director of the CFPB, Russell Vought, demanding that members from DOGE and its...more
Corporate compliance officers might feel like they’ve been put through the whirlwind lately, with the Trump Administration issuing one sweeping announcement about corporate enforcement after another. Except, remember what a...more
On December 11, 2024, the 5th Circuit issued another important opinion (for the third time this year) requiring that an administrative agency's rules fit squarely within the statutory scheme that empowers the agency to act....more
On November 21, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule that deems payment app providers “larger participants” subject to the agency’s direct supervision (Rule)....more
Earlier this week, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National...more
On July 24, 2024, the CFPB issued a circular detailing how companies may be breaking the law by requiring employees to sign broad nondisclosure agreements that could deter whistleblowing. Under Section 1057(a) of the...more
On March 5, 2024, the White House announced the establishment of a new “Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing” (the “Strike Force”) stating that the Biden administration will hold accountable “corporations . . . when...more
Regulatory Developments - CFPB Issues Interpretive Rule: Tech Firms and Digital Marketers Acting as Service Providers Are Subject to CFPA - On August 10, the CFPB issued an interpretive rule clarifying that tech firms...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has made it clear that corporate recidivism is now a top priority of its enforcement efforts. On March 28, 2022, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra delivered a lecture, titled Reining...more
In the News. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) published its proxy voting guidelines updates for 2021, which include new and updated voting recommendations on federal forum and exclusive forum provisions in companies’...more
Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more
WeWork’s drama in past weeks—which includes a planned and postponed public offering thanks to rough financials and dicey corporate governance—is prompting the company to consider swapping out founder Adam Neumann as CEO to...more
On January 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a plurality opinion en banc that confirmed the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) governance by a sole Director, while...more
Editor's Note - A Tale of Two Agencies. On November 27, Joseph M. Otting was sworn in as the 31st Comptroller of the Currency. Mr. Otting seamlessly succeeded Keith A. Noreika, who became Acting Comptroller in May 2017...more
Bipartisan Regulatory Relief Bill for Smaller Financial Institutions Introduced in Senate Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate, aimed at reducing regulatory burden on community banks, providing new...more
Host Jonathan Hightower is joined by Ken Achenbach to discuss this week's proposed guidance from the Federal Reserve on the effectiveness of bank boards. In addition, at the outset of the episode Jonathan and Ken reviewed...more
The CFPB has generated acute awareness of the term “compliance management system” (CMS) through its highly publicized consent orders. Since it began issuing orders in 2011, the CFPB has invariably cited “significant...more
On June 8, the House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 in a bid to reform the financial regulatory system created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill, which...more
Editor's Note - OCC to Move Forward with Federal FinTech Charter. In a development foreshadowed in the April 6, June 29 and September 14 editions of the Roundup, on December 2, the Office of the Comptroller of the...more
On February 1, 2016, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) published the Winter 2015 issue of Supervisory Insights. Not surprisingly, the first article dealt with the most important issue facing the financial...more
SEC/CORPORATE - ISS Publishes Results of 2015–2016 Annual Global Policy Survey - On September 28, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading proxy advisory firm, published the results of its 2015–2016...more
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released a Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) on June 30, 2015, to assist organizations in identifying cyber risks and assessing their cybersecurity...more
Table of Contents: Introduction; Financial Stability Reform; Resolution Planning; Agencies and Agency Oversight Reform; Securitization Reform; Derivatives Regulation; Investor Protection Reform; Credit Rating Agency...more