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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
A 2024 CFTC enforcement action settlement that may have introduced a new test for when the Commodity Exchange Act and the agency's regulations apply on a cross-border basis concerned then-CFTC Commissioner and now Acting CFTC...more
Prediction market platform Kalshi has secured a preliminary injunction against the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (the Division), preventing the state from enforcing a cease-and-desist order that aimed to halt...more
On April 4, 2025, the CFTC's Division of Market Participants issued No-Action Letter 25-09 regarding the controversial Pre-Trade Mid-Market Mark ("PTMMM") requirements in CFTC Regulation 23.431, effectively eliminating the...more
On 10 February 2025, the law of 6 February 2025 regarding, notably, digital finance was published in the Official Journal of Luxembourg (the “Law”)....more
Section 1024 of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 authorizes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to define markets for consumer financial products and services and supervise the larger participants within those markets...more
FINRA’s Office of Financial Innovation published a report on “The Metaverse and the Implications for the Securities Industry” to raise awareness among its member firms and the broader securities industry and seek industry...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released guidance regarding its planned changes to the Bank Merger Act (BMA). The New Rule: Explicitly adds financial stability as a key factor for assessing mergers,...more
Firms will need to update their internal procedures and ensure they are ready to comply with the new requirements ahead of 1 November 2024. HM Treasury (HMT), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Prudential...more
The decision, which addresses a broad range of market activity by Coinbase relating to 13 third-party tokens, could have significant implications for market participants. On March 27, 2024, Judge Katherine Failla of the US...more
In a long-awaited decision, the Third Circuit handed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) a victory in the National Collegiate Student Loan Trust litigation that could have wide-reaching implications...more
The sale of adult-use cannabis has been legalized in 24 states in the United States. But this does not mean there are no other legal impediments to the cannabis industry in those jurisdictions. For example, cannabis...more
Please join Mayer Brown partners Tameem Zainulbhai, Joanna Nicholas, Melissa Kilcoyne, Evan DeCresce and Jim Antonopoulos for a discussion on What to Expect in 2024 in the fields of structured finance and securitization. They...more
Licensees, exchanges, and other market participants should prepare to comply with the listing, disclosure, capital, and other requirements that the new law imposes. On October 13, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom...more
On October 16, 2023, the Division of Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Division” and the “SEC,” respectively) announced its examination priorities for 2024. While the Division typically...more
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions, or IOSCO, has published a Consultation Report on good practices for consideration in relation to leveraged loans and CLOs....more
The CFPB's latest regulatory agenda signals that it is considering rules to define larger participants in markets for consumer payments, to be published in July 2023. This action, if implemented, would represent a sea change...more
One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges - FTX Trading Ltd. - and many of its affiliates filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. While the full impact of the FTX bankruptcy is not yet clear, various responses from...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules to include certain significant market participants as “dealers” or “government securities dealers” to essentially eliminate the trader exclusion...more
UK rules will diverge from the much-criticised EU framework. On 20 July 2021, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP21/23) on amending the UK PRIIPs Regulation. The FCA has long held concerns about the PRIIPs...more
On 5 December 2019 the Bank of England (Bank), UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published coordinated consultation papers and policy on new requirements to strengthen...more
1. What is LIBOR and why is it going away? The London Interbank Offered Rate, or “LIBOR,” is a reference rate commonly used in a broad range of financial contracts. In fact, it serves as a reference rate for tens of...more
Recent updates from the Bank of England, the New York Federal Reserve, and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and Bloomberg in connection with publication of IBOR fallback rate adjustments should be welcomed...more
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) issued a much-anticipated final rule (Final Rule) on January 30 to amend and codify—in certain respects, for the first time—its framework for making...more
As technology reshapes the banking industry, regulators are rising to the challenge. Digitalization is at the forefront of the challenges facing the banking industry as it undergoes a period of unprecedented upheaval....more
Mit Newsletter vom 04. November 2019 haben wir über die Pläne der EU zur Förderung nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens und der entsprechenden Umgestaltung des Finanzsystems berichtet. So soll insbesondere eine EU-Taxonomie-Verordnung...more