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SEC Cost-Benefit Analysis: A New Face and a New Role

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Under the Trump administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of revamping its approach to the cost-benefit analysis it performs in support of its regulatory actions. These changes are being spurred...more

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CFTC Enforcement Division Issues Framework for DOJ Criminal Referrals

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On July 9, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement (DOE), acting pursuant to a recent executive order (EO), issued an advisory letter outlining its new policy for referring criminally...more

Cozen O'Connor

Cozen Currents: The Buck Stops Here?

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“The uncertainty arising out of the Trump administration’s first 100 days shock and awe campaign has led to an unexpected flight from the US dollar despite its traditional role as a safe haven asset. While the dollar’s status...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2025 - Security for New Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

New Bitcoin Strategic Reserve: On March 7, 2025, the White House hosted a Digital Assets Summit to celebrate the creation of a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve and a Digital Assets Stockpile by an Executive Order titled,...more

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New SEC Management Boldly Charts New Course

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A shift in leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission often brings significant changes in regulatory priorities and enforcement approaches. As anticipated in our firm’s EO Watch alert, “Immediate Practical...more

DLA Piper

Institutional Investor Newsletter: Q1 2025

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Former President Joe Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14105, “Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” on August 9, 2023. More...more

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2024 CFTC Year in Review: An Overview of a Transitional Year

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Coming off a busy 2024, we expect that 2025 will be a landmark year for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission). Rostin Behnam’s resignation as Chairman on January 20 marked the end of the Biden...more

Crunched Credit

What Just Happened?

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The political adventure in self-abuse that we call an election is now well behind us. I planned to write this commentary last November, hence the “Just” in the title. My inability to even assay an answer to that question...more

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Immediate Practical Consequences of SEC-Related EOs

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A large number of the executive actions, including executive orders (EOs) and memoranda, that President Trump has been issuing can have important consequences for companies that make filings or have other business with the...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Bolsters Competition Enforcement Efforts

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On May 24, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced that it is establishing a new office, the Office of Competition and Innovation, as part of a broader initiative to promote competition in the...more

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California Governor Orders Agencies to Create Transparent Regulatory Framework for Blockchain and Digital Assets

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California's governor issued an executive order requiring state agencies, led by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, to create a "transparent" regulatory framework for blockchain technologies and digital...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Ensuring Responsible Innovation In Digital Assets Calls For TEAMWORK

The Executive Order signed by President Biden lays out a national policy for digital assets across six key priorities: consumer and investor protection, financial stability, illicit finance, U.S. leadership in the global...more

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CFPB Launches New Initiative Focused on Rural Communities

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In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order on Digital Assets

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On March 9, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets (Order). In the face of rapid advancement in blockchain technology and its applications, the Order asserts that...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New executive order forges path for unified US regulation of digital assets

In an Executive Order (EO) issued March 9, 2022, President Joseph Biden set out the guiding principles for US policy on digital assets and digital asset regulation, including US policy with respect to a US Central Bank...more

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Biden's Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk: What's Next for Financial Institutions?

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President Biden issued an Executive Order asking the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to work with the Financial Stability Oversight Council to assess risks that climate change poses to the financial system....more

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In Case You Missed It - Interesting Items for Corporate Counsel - December 2019

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The NYSE proposed in November changes to its listing standards to allow “primary” share offerings through a direct listing. To date, direct listings have been in the form of stockholder share resales (a “secondary offering”)...more

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US Department of the Treasury: A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities—Capital Markets

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In October 2017, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published a report titled “A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities” (Treasury Report). Treasury, under the direction of Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign: Changes in Store for SEC Enforcement under the Trump Administration

Even before President Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton as the next Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”), signs have been appearing that changes are afoot within the Division of...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Regulation D Battlefield Heating Up as Acting Chairman Piwowar Suggests Doing Away with Concept of Accredited Investors

On the same day that President Trump signed an Executive Order instructing federal agencies to create task forces designed to identify regulations for potential elimination, Michael Piwowar, Acting-Chairman of the Securities...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Will President Trump's Regulation Cuts Reduce Ongoing Disclosure for Bond-Financed Projects?

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President Donald Trump on Feb. 3, 2017, signed an executive order entitled "Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System," which directed the Treasury Secretary to consult with financial regulators,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Trump Administration-Part III: Preparing for a Catastrophe

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

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Executive Order Could Lead to Changes in the Regulation of US Financial Markets

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President Trump’s order sets forth core regulatory principles and requires an extensive report in 120 days, which could lead to broader changes in the regulation of the US financial markets....more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Executive Order on Dodd-Frank Rollback

President Trump has signed an executive order titled “Presidential Executive Order on Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System.“ The “Core Principles” are...more

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Trump's "Two for One" Regulation Order Excludes SEC, Maybe All of Dodd-Frank

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The White House clarified that Trump’s January 30 “two for one” Executive Order doesn’t apply to the SEC and other independent regulatory agencies, Reuters reported. ...more

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