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Enhancing Card Partnerships and Compliance: A Conversation With Matthew Goldman — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: CFPB’s Withdrawal of Informal Guidance Sparks New Litigation Dynamics – The Consumer Finance Podcast
Sunday Book Review: August 10, 2025, The More Books from The Ethicsverse Library Edition
AI Today in 5: August 6, 2025, The Rethinking Compliance Episode
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
Suluki Secrets: Behind the Scenes of Reasonable Investigations — FCRA Focus Podcast
The Current State of the Holder Rule: Friend or Foe? — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Avoiding CCO Liability
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 55 – The From Worse to Worser Edition
Balch’s Consumer Finance Compass: How Standing Can Make or Break Certification for Class Action Lawsuits in Debt Collection
Top challenges with Compliance Management
Sittenfeld v. United States – Campaign Contributions as Crimes?
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
On June 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally withdrew 14 proposed rules for investment advisers, broker-dealers and public companies, many of which had been pending for several years. Should the SEC...more
On October 21, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Division of Examinations (the “Division”) published its examination priorities for 2025. The published priorities inform SEC registrants, investors,...more
Key Points - - During its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to provide important guidance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act’s (PSLRA’s) particularity requirement in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or...more
This month, an interim report on artificial intelligence in the financial sector was published for public comment. The report was written by the Ministries of Justice and Treasury, the Competition Authority, the Securities...more
On October 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Examinations (Division) published its examination priorities for its fiscal year 2025 (Oct. 1, 2024–Sept. 30, 2025). First published in 2013, the SEC's...more
SEC Loses in ALJ Case, DOL’s Latest Fiduciary Rule Put on Hold, and SEC Reconsiders AI and Custody Rule Proposals - Welcome to our July Regulatory Roundup, where we provide a quick look at the latest regulatory developments....more
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by Kim Phan, a partner in our firm’s Privacy + Cyber practice, to discuss the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new cyber risk management and incident...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced an open meeting to be held on July 26, 2023. The agenda includes consideration of the final amendments to the rules relating to enhanced and standardized disclosures regarding...more
Last month, the SEC took a big step toward strengthening the cybersecurity of financial systems by proposing regulations that, taken together, will require registered investments advisers, broker‑dealers, and all national...more
On March 15, 2023, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a major step towards strengthening cybersecurity in the financial sector by proposing three new rules. These rules aim to improve privacy,...more
The internet facilitates crime in the same way it facilitates legitimate business - it lowers transaction costs. With the internet, a fraudster can steal someone's identity and then use that purloined identity to reach...more
The 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program was published on Jan. 10, 2023. In a statement accompanying the Report, Greg Ruppert, executive vice president of FINRA’s Member Supervision organization,...more
In a move that further executes upon the SEC’s increasingly tough rhetoric on cryptocurrency and cybersecurity, SEC Enforcement recently announced that it will nearly double the size of its newly-renamed Crypto Assets and...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is implementing a campaign to overhaul the agency’s expectations around cybersecurity and cyber incident reporting for the financial services industry and corporate America...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to private fund regulation; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) succeeded in validating its “valid-when-made” rulemaking; the...more
On February 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted to propose rule 206(4)-9 under the Advisers Act and 38a-2 under the Investment Company Act (collectively, “Proposed Rule”). In general, the Proposed Rule...more
A significant expansion of rules relating to cybersecurity risks - particularly for the financial sector - is under consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In public remarks last week, SEC Chair...more
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler made remarks on Jan. 24, 2022, at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law's Annual Securities Regulation Institute regarding the SEC's work to improve...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a sample comment letter on climate change disclosures; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is conducting a review of brokerage firm...more
A recent FINRA regulatory notice recasts existing obligations regarding outsourcing as a procedural roadmap for broker-dealers to “consider” when using third-party vendors. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc....more
In this Issue. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was busy this week, finalizing rules that modernize brokered deposits regulations, establish new standards for parent companies of industrial loan companies and...more
The Cayman Islands recently implemented data protection legislation similar to that adopted elsewhere in the world, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR forced many businesses outside its...more
In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a risk alert on investment adviser principal and agency cross trading compliance issues, published disclosure interpretations relating to the Inline XBRL...more
On August 7, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert containing observations from its Cybersecurity 2 Exam Initiative. As a follow-up to the 2014 Cybersecurity 1 initiative, the...more
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