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Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update
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Investment Management Update - Focus on Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
April 9, 2025- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence held a hearing entitled “American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets...more
October 30, 2024 - Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Josh Frost issued the Quarterly Refunding Statement announcing that the U.S. Department of the Treasury is offering $125 billion of Treasury securities to refund...more
July 25, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a statement reminding banks of potential risks associated with third-party arrangements...more
April 17, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for February 2024. April 17, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog...more
Editor's Note - The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency,...more
Editor's Note: The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically...more
January 24, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") announced that the Bank Term Funding Program, where the FRB purchased government bonds at par, will cease making new loans as scheduled on March 11, 2024, ending a key...more
December 20, 2023- U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry (NC-10) and Congressman Mike Flood (NE-01) led 18 of their colleagues on a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit...more
November 6, 2023- The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority, and UK Financial Conduct Authority published their proposed approach to innovation in payments, money and money-like instruments. The proposals are...more
September 28, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains held a hearing titled "Energy Independence: How Burdensome Energy Regulations are Crushing Small...more
August 31, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury posted the preliminary data from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2022. August 31, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board...more
July 12, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, "Protecting Investor Interests: Examining Environmental and Social Policy in Financial Regulation."...more
April 27, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the Credit Reporting Agencies." April 27, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business &...more
January 18, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order that identifies the virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Limited (Bitzlato) as a "primary money laundering...more
January 13, 2023- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen sent a letter to all members of Congressional leadership regarding the debt limit. January 13, 2023- The UK-U.S. Financial Regulatory Working Group issued a...more
November 1, 2022- Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo delivered remarks at the semi-annual Joint session of the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee andFinancial Services Sector Coordinating...more
October 27, 2022- U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo participated in a virtual roundtable with key stakeholders on climate impact, equity and the Inflation Reduction Act....more
Regulatory Developments - FinCEN Finalizes Rule Implementing Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act - On September 29, FinCEN issued a final rule under the CTA requiring each...more
October 6, 2022- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen announced that Treasury has signed a loan agreement for the Clean Technology Fund—a multilateral trust fund which helps to scale up low carbon technologies in...more
Congress- U.S. House of Representatives- Committee on Financial Services- Hearing: Where Have All the Houses Gone? Private Equity, Single Family Rentals, and America's Neighborhoods-...more
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Executive Summary - Developments and Trends in Policy and Enforcement - US Department of the Treasury - The Office of Foreign Assets Control - Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network -...more
May 11, 2018 marked the compliance date for the Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions rule issued by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) on May 11, 2016 (the...more
Over the past few months, the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’) has publicly stated its increasing focus on public company internal controls and related reporting obligations. In February of this year at the...more