10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 23, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 22, 2025, The WADA Returns Edition
Operationalizing Trust at Scale: Evolving Compliance: Neta Meidav on the Diligent Acquisition and AI Integration
Daily Compliance News: August 18, 2025, The All Corruption Edition
Herb Stapleton's FBI Experience Proves to be Asset to Dinsmore's Corporate Team
False Claims Act Insights - Beyond Adversarialism: How to Steer FCA Investigations
Episode 381 -- Cadence Design Pays $140 Million to Settle Trade Violations
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes’ Investigative Techniques for Today’s Challenges
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 30, 2025, The Corruption Kill Business Edition
Suluki Secrets: Behind the Scenes of Reasonable Investigations — FCRA Focus Podcast
Just Press "Play"
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Daily Compliance News: July 28, 2025, The Where is Grasshopper when you need him Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Avoiding a Bored Board
Podcast - “I Lied Like a Dog!”
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
What happens when two top compliance commentators get together? They talk compliance, of course. Join Tom Fox and Kristy Grant-Hart in 2 Gurus Talk Compliance as they discuss the latest compliance issues in this week’s...more
Whistleblowing has become an increasingly critical aspect of corporate governance and compliance, especially for multinational companies operating across diverse legal and regulatory landscapes. We see increased efforts by...more
With the CFTC still in the early stages of its fiscal year, in the month of November, we did not see a lot of action by way of publicly-released enforcement actions from the CFTC or enforcement-related public statements from...more
Organizations whose mantra is “We just never delete anything” (i.e., organizations simply retaining all information indefinitely) are now facing headwinds, especially when the information contains personal information. As our...more
On August 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its new “Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program” (“DOJ Program”), a three-year initiative managed by DOJ’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section....more
For years, Department of Justice officials have stressed how important chief compliance officers are as the first line of defense in fighting corporate crimes. While that’s true, compliance programs now have a competitor in...more
Editor's Note - The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency,...more
More organizations continue to adopt blockchain technologies. According to Grand View Research, the global blockchain technology market value was estimated at 10.02 billion in 2022. Analysts forecast a compound annual growth...more
Last month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced settled charges against three decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols for various registration and related violations under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA)...more
On September 19, 2023, the CFTC announced whistleblower awards totaling over $15 million to two whistleblowers who provided the CFTC with information that assisted the agency in bringing separate successful enforcement...more
Chat applications are a fact of life now. Many employees in all sectors are using it to communicate and collaborate. The prevalence of this data type means that searching only standard document types such as emails is no...more
Who may be interested: Registered Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers, Registered Investment Companies, Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC recently settled charges against ten broker-dealers and one dually...more
Overall cryptocurrency crime levels are down, according to a report from Chainalysis reviewing crypto crime trends, but this past year has still seen certain categories of crypto crime, such as ransomware, continue to...more
Over the last several years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) have been laser-focused on the use of so called “off-channel communications” in the...more
When announcing the much publicized $125 million fine against JP Morgan for violating recordkeeping rules, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Chair stated that financial institutions “did not act as if they...more
On January 26, Reuters reported SEC probes into registered investment advisers and their compliance with the custody rule for digital assets. Investment advisers should be ready to respond to any SEC inquiry and take the...more
A Bloomberg article last week suggests potentially more bad news is on the way for Coinbase Global Inc. (“Coinbase”). Coinbase is reportedly facing an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) into...more
Forbes reported today that “every” U.S. crypto exchange is being investigated by the SEC. Forbes cited to an unnamed staffer for Senator Cynthia Lumis (R-Wy) as the source of the information. The Forbes article notes that...more
In the wake of President Biden’s March 9, 2022, executive order outlining his Administration’s desire to establish a comprehensive federal approach to crypto policy and regulation, federal agencies are continuing to focus on...more
Using personal devices and messaging platforms may be convenient (and ubiquitous), but it may run afoul of federal records retention rules. Our Investment Management, Trading & Markets and White Collar, Government & Internal...more
On Monday, President Biden released the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption, which details how the United States will work “domestically and internationally, with governmental and non-governmental partners, to...more
In an effort to pursue unlawful trading in the derivatives markets, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") and U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") have in recent years engaged in unprecedented levels of...more
On Friday March 12, Bloomberg News reported that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has opened an inquiry into Binance Holdings Ltd. (“Binance”) to investigate allegations that the exchange allowed US citizens...more
An interdealer broker agreed to pay a fine of US $13 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to resolve charges that it failed to supervise brokers on a swaps desk that allegedly made numerous false or misleading...more
Intending to bring greater transparency to the operation of its enforcement program, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC or Commission) Division of Enforcement (the Division) recently, for the first time, made...more