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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
This chapter discusses prudential insurance regulation in Japan. Japan is the fourth-largest insurance market in the world, with a broad customer base and a varied range of offerings. This profile, coupled with ongoing...more
Following Shigeru Ishiba’s appointment as Prime Minister on October 1, 2024, Japan has been charting a cautious but innovation-friendly AI regulation strategy, culminating in a public announcement by the Prime Minister...more
We are pleased to provide this twice-annual report summarising notable mergers and acquisitions activity in South and Southeast Asia, highlighting transactions over US$100 million in aggregate value. This edition features...more
2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more
Following a period in which financial sponsors have struggled to realize an acceptable prices for their assets, signs point towards a brighter outlook for 2025. At the start of 2024 private equity firms were hoping that...more
Japan is considering whether to require all of its primary listed companies to publish an annual sustainability report which substantively conforms with the standards issued by the IFRS’ International Sustainability Standards...more
The growth in size and influence of ESG ratings and data markets coupled with concerns about the transparency and credibility of ESG ratings and data products have led to IOSCO developing recommendations to regulators and ESG...more
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As we had reported in our earlier client alert and 2022 Year in Preview, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a new wave of sanctions and export controls on Russia, including sanctions on key sectors of the Russian...more
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The Situation: The amendment to the Payment Services Act ("PSA") of Japan took effect in May 2021, removing the current numerical transfer cap placed on fund transfer services by nonbank institutions. The Result: This...more
The Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) recently submitted a bill to the National Diet of Japan including certain amendments to finance-related laws for purposes of strengthening Japan’s financial system and financial...more
The Working Group Committee of Japan's Financial Services Agency has recommended a new exemption system for fund managers who manage overseas investors' funds, with fewer restrictions on eligible investors. On December 23,...more
The Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) announced on November 6 that together with the local finance bureaus, it will establish a Financial Market Entry Office (FME Office upgraded from the current Financial Market Entry...more
The Japanese Financial Services Agency released a new regulation allowing foreign fund managers and securities brokers to transfer their operations to Japan temporarily and without registration in certain emergency...more
This alert provides a summary of the announcement (Announcement) issued by the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (KLFB) at the beginning of August 2020. Responding to the Japanese government’s “Report concerning Promotion of...more
Subordinate regulations under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Act No. 25 of 1948, as amended (FIEA), were amended on July 22 to allow foreign business operators to temporarily conduct business in Japan upon...more
Following the declaration of a state of emergency due to COVID-19, Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) made recent announcements extending the filing deadline for annual securities reports and other disclosure reports,...more
This alert reviews the impact of the Government of Japan’s recent state of emergency declaration due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic on the practices of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau, which has switched to...more
Investors and investment managers around the globe are seeing increasing rules and regulations on how they can deploy their money, how they can advertise their services, and how they have to report to regulators. ...more
On November 22, the Japanese National Diet, the Japanese national legislature, passed an amendment bill to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (Act No. 228 of 1949, as amended) (the “FEFTA”) to expand the scope of...more
On May 31, 2019, the National Diet, the Japanese national legislature, passed an amendment bill to the Payment Services Act (the “PSA”) and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (the “FIEA”), which was promulgated on...more
T-Mobile chief and fan-of-magenta John Legere has announced that he’ll be stepping down in April at the end of his current contract. Legere will be succeeded by Mike Sievert, the carrier’s current president and COO....more
Mario Draghi presided over his final ECB meeting yesterday, with the central bank deciding to hold rates steady and let current stimulus measures play out for the time being. His departure (and the arrival of former IMF chief...more
In December 2018, the Financial Services Agency of Japan (the “JFSA”) proposed amendments to its regulations under the Banking Act of Japan to introduce a new risk retention rule applicable to collateralized loan obligations...more