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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
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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
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Daily Compliance News: July 15, 2025, The Fighting Workplace Bullying Edition
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#Risk New York Speaker Series – Exploring Future Regulatory Trends and Compliance Strategies with Rory McGrath
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
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Commercial mortgage delinquency rates are on the uptick. The United States economy is shrinking according to Commerce Department measurements. Economic volatility is the new norm. As borrowers navigate economic ebbs and...more
The latest revisions to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (known as EMIR 3)1 brought about numerous changes affecting cleared markets, with potential impacts both within and outside the EU. Among these is the...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has announced it has renewed its statement of commitment to the FX Global Code, based on the revised code dated December 2024. The FX Global Code outlines principles of good practice in the foreign...more
During the transition of the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to the approved substitute benchmark in the United States, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), a basic question was raised as to whether the new...more
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a final report on examples of effective practices for streamlining variation margin in centrally...more
The Financial Markets Standards Board has published its updated final statement of good practice for front office supervision of wholesale traded markets. The statement of good practice sets out 15 good practice statements,...more
Long IT sub-contracting chains can make it hard for financial institutions to understand the vulnerabilities in their IT estate and the location of key functions (where these may be located in entities who do not have a...more
I. INTRODUCTION - On May 13, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a joint notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more
On August 24, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a draft of its strategic plan for 2022 – 2026, outlining its key initiatives for the next four years. The SEC’s mission is to protect investors, maintain...more
The Federal Reserve has released FAQs covering its recently revised control regulation, which became effective on September 30, 2020 (the “Control Rule”). For more on the specifics of the Control Rule, please refer to our...more
Regulators are increasing pressure on financial institutions to demonstrate that they are proactively addressing the transition away from LIBOR. On December 23, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services...more
At some point, you must ask just how corrupt is an organization? What does the tone from top which says to make your numbers at all cost, translate to in operationalization? Unfortunately, we have seen yet another dramatic...more
Writing in her weekly New York Times (NYT) Fair Game column, in a piece entitled “The Trump Effect: Time To Buckle Up”, Gretchen Morgenson noted, “investors are now scratching their heads trying to figure out what his...more
On October 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules under Title III of the JOBS Act (“Regulation Crowdfunding”) to permit a company to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding transactions that...more
The SEC has proposed amendments to Rule 147 under the Securities Act of 1933, which currently provides a safe harbor for compliance with the Section 3(a)(11) exemption from registration for intrastate securities offerings....more
New Margin Requirements - The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation approved a final rule to establish margin requirements for swaps that are not cleared through a clearinghouse. This action is...more
On October 1, 2015, the German Parliament adopted the national “Act Implementing the EU Transparency Directive Amending Directive (2013/50/EU)” (the “Act”). The aim of the directive is to harmonize the regime for notification...more
Changes to the UCITS Directive (known as “UCITS V”) were published in the Official Journal of the European Union and came into force on 17 September 2014. EU Member States are required to transpose UCITS V into national law...more
Two new Volcker Rule FAQs have been issued. One FAQ addresses a bank’s market making activities. Amongst other things, the FAQ affirms that for purposes of meeting the final rule’s exemption for market-making, a...more
On September 15, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) released a Risk Alert (the “2015 Risk Alert”) that announced its second round of cybersecurity...more
On September 10, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Division issued a final rule requiring that all registered introducing brokers and commodity pool operators, and certain commodity trading advisors become and...more
The SEC has given the go-ahead to a venture capital firm’s plan to conduct 506(b) private placements online. On August 5, 2015, the Commission issued a no-action letter to Citizen VC, Inc., saying the firm’s proposed online...more
On September 1, 2015, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) published in the Federal Register long-rumored proposed regulations that will require Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)-registered investment...more
This week the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) announced a second-round of cybersecurity examinations, continuing its initiatives on the issue. The move follows the SEC’s: March 2014 roundtable...more
In the most recent edition of its regular market conduct and transaction reporting-focused ‘Market Watch’ publication, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) provides a review of commodities firms’ compliance and...more