Regulatory Rollback: Impact of the CFPB's Withdrawal of Overdraft and Deposit Account Fee Guidance on Financial Institutions and Related Litigation Risks — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Crypto's Capital Markets Revolution: Insights From GSR's Josh Riezman — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 23, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 22, 2025, The WADA Returns Edition
Enhancing Card Partnerships and Compliance: A Conversation With Matthew Goldman — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Institutional Adoption, Tax Challenges, and What's Next for Crypto in the US — Insights from KPMG's Tony Tuths - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day: Citibank and Continuous Monitoring
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
Wire Fraud Litigants Beware: Fourth Circuit Ruling Protects the Banks — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Top challenges with Compliance Management
Daily Compliance News: July 15, 2025, The Fighting Workplace Bullying Edition
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Exploring Future Regulatory Trends and Compliance Strategies with Rory McGrath
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Banking on Lending Models — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Great Women in Compliance: GWIC X EC Q2 2025 - Exploring Compliance Innovations
LEVEL-SETTING - The banking industry finds itself in the early stages of a transformation. Existing balance sheets have been shaped by more than a decade of low interest rates that fueled asset appreciation, muted...more
Our Global Fund Finance practice recently sponsored and attended the 2025 Global Fund Finance Symposium. Hosted annually by the Fund Finance Association, these conferences bring together key players in the fund finance...more
While PC software programs are a practical improvement over the trustee’s hard-copy ledger book, when it comes to keeping track of trust income and principal these programs still require serious clerical monitoring on the...more
A five-year legal dispute between heirs of the renowned artist Thomas Hart Benton and the trust department that administered and managed the Benton Trust produced a significant ruling last month in Jackson County, Missouri...more
The combination of increased regulatory pressure and additional investor demand for higher yield has seen numerous banks gradually displaced by private debt funds in the corporate lending sector (particularly for mid-market...more
Introduction - On 13 May 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Department of Treasury’s (DoT) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) jointly proposed rulemaking to implement Section 326 of the...more
Despite challenges around fundraising and heightened investor and regulatory scrutiny in an uncertain economic climate, alternative asset managers in the Middle East are continuing to have a busy year. Here, A&O Middle East...more
Hosted by C5, the 17th Edition Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Geneva returns for another exciting year with curated programming that will address historic government enforcement announcements, new strategies to tackle the...more
Last month, I attended the 28th Annual Factoring Conference presented by the International Factoring Association (IFA) in Boston. This is the world's largest conference of its kind, dedicated solely to banks, lenders,...more
On August 27, 2021 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released guidance on Conducting Due Diligence on Financial...more
The International Capital Market Association (“ICMA”) submitted June 15th comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in response to a request for public input on current potential regulation of climate change...more
Bank M&A across Europe comes to a boil—the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the confluence of conducive conditions for mega domestic mergers. Spain and the Balkans lead the charge, with Italy, Germany, France, Poland and the UK...more
Banks, asset managers and insurers have 18 months to introduce and implement environmental risk management practices in accordance with new Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management. The Guidelines were issued by the...more
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Letter from Our Co-Chairs - As the digital transformation of financial markets accelerates at breakneck speeds, fintech presents significant opportunities and challenges for both investors and innovators around the world. ...more
Financial Institutions M&A sector trends: Asset/wealth management — H1 2020 and outlook for H2 2020. Differing bank prerogatives drive deal-making—-some European banks tag-out from non-core business lines, while others...more
Financial Institutions M&A sector trends: Banks — H1 2020 and outlook for H2 2020. Overview - 3 highlights of bank M&A: - Strategic M&A: Surge, post-easing of lockdowns, as pent-up deal-making prowess is unleashed -...more
Regulators are increasing pressure on financial institutions to demonstrate that they are proactively addressing the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The New York State Department of Financial...more
Financial institutions M&A sector trends: asset/wealth management — H1 2019 and outlook for H2 2019 - CURRENT MARKET - Consistent, high activity levels. WE ARE SEEING - Industry consolidation—mostly smaller deals....more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and...more
To clarify our intended audience, in the Financial Entity Update we will address issues germane to entities that trade swaps but are neither dealers nor commercial end users. This includes a broad and diverse group of...more
In seeking comment on potential risks to the U.S. financial system created by asset managers, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) again places asset managers in its crosshairs. This crusade potentially can lead...more