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Fierce Competition Podcast | Antitrust Collusion in Labor Markets: Enforcement Trends on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Podcast - An Overview of State Attorney General Consumer Protection Enforcement
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance into the Weeds: A Deep Dive into Cadence Design Systems’ Export Control Violations
Daily Compliance News: August 1, 2025, The All AI Edition
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
Mid-Year Labor & Employment Law Update: Key Developments and Compliance Strategies
Disparate Impact & Enforcement Rollbacks: What’s the Tea in L&E?
CSC Guidance Unveiled: NIL Enforcement and Implications for Collectives — Highway to NIL Podcast
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Cease and Desist Letters: Protecting Your Intellectual Property the Right Way
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Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
On July 21, 2025, in Commodity Futures Trading Commission et al. v. TMTE Inc et al., a Texas district court denied summary judgment to both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and two individual defendants in a...more
In a break from the typical acting agency chairman, Acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") Chairman Caroline Pham has taken several significant actions, signaled several more, and set the agency on a path to...more
On December 4, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) released its enforcement results for Fiscal Year 2024 (“FY 2024”), showcasing record awards of monetary relief totaling more than $17.2 billion....more
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), significantly expanded the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC” or “Commission”) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation statutory...more
Many of the transactions involving qualified financial contracts (“QFC”) with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Signature Bank constitute Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) jurisdictional transactions that may be...more
Federal agencies aggressively pursued enforcement actions in June. At the same time, state and federal regulators continued to recognize the importance of blockchain industry regulation by putting forth significant policy...more
The SEC has, for many years, used broker-dealer and associated persons’ failure to create and maintain books and records as a basis for the imposition of serious penalties. In recent actions, it appears to be continuing—and...more
In Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) brought and settled five enforcement actions against swap dealers for alleged reporting, disclosures and supervision failures. Historically, the...more
Established in 1974 in Washington, D.C., the CFTC was originally responsible for overseeing and regulating the commodity futures and options markets in the United States. Initially, its primary focus was to regulate trading...more
Continuing its aggressive enforcement of the anti-spoofing law enacted under the 2010 Dodd Frank Act, the CFTC recently filed an enforcement action—currently being litigated—against Roman Banoczay Jr., Roman Banoczay Sr., and...more
JP Morgan Chase (“JP Morgan”) is not having a positive year when it comes to government enforcement. JP Morgan is at the brink of a multi-billion dollar FCPA settlement for its involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal in...more
On September 10, 2020, the CFTC announced the issuance of new, public, guidance to its enforcement staff on evaluating the adequacy of corporate compliance programs. The new guidance provides enforcement staff a framework...more
On August 19, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued three orders filing and settling charges against a bank with a provisionally registered swap dealer (the “Firm”) requiring the Firm to pay $127.4...more
A federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois ruled that Chicago derivatives firm DV Trading LLC can force three futures traders to arbitrate claims that it is withholding $1.6 million to defray a $5 million regulatory...more
Product innovation (including in pooled investment vehicles) is encouraged, but innovation must be consistent with the law. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary...more
Developing a framework for consumer tokens - With the rapid growth in the development of blockchain technology, virtual currencies and token sales (sometimes referred to as initial coin offerings, or ICOs), token...more
CBS isn’t the only large company with insider trading worries. In complaints made public yesterday, the SEC has accused Gene Levoff, Apple’s former senior director of corporate law and corporate secretary, of “repeatedly”...more
On September 28, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) filed a civil enforcement action in the Southern District of New York against an introducing broker and one of its associated persons, alleging that...more
The chief executive officer of a major worldwide banking group agreed to pay the equivalent of US $870,000 as fines to two United Kingdom regulators, and had the equivalent of US $677,000 of prior pay clawed back by his...more
On April 25, 2018, a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut acquitted a former trader at a major global banking and financial services company (the “Trader”) of conspiracy to commit...more
On January 29, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of eight anti-spoofing enforcement actions: three settlements with financial institutions and five complaints filed in federal district...more
Welcome to the 2016 Year-End Report from the BakerHostetler Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Practice Team. The purpose of this Report is to provide a periodic survey, apart from our team Executive...more
Two Broker-Dealers to Pay US $154 Million to the State of NY and the SEC to Resolve Allegations of Wrongdoing by Their Dark Pools: Barclays Capital Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities settled allegations by the Securities and...more
Three Individuals Fined and Banned From Trading on CME Group Exchanges for Market Conduct Violations - CME Group business conduct committees permanently banned three traders from trading on CME Group exchanges for market...more
Welcome to the 2015 Mid-Year Report from the BakerHostetler Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Practice Team. The purpose is to provide a periodic survey, apart from our team Executive Alerts, on matters we...more