Paddle's Payment Predicament: Unpacking FTC's Compliance Crackdown — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
AI Today in 5: August 22, 2025, The Angst Episode
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 17: Security, Cyber-Intel, and a Sense of Humor with Nir Rothenberg of Rapyd
Daily Compliance News: August 22, 2025, The WADA Returns Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 76 - The Digital Future: The US GENIUS Act and Hong Kong Stablecoins Ordinance / The Hong Kong Web3 Blueprint: Building a Web 3 International Financial Hub Report
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Understanding the Development and Regulation of Buy Now, Pay Later Products — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Understanding BBB Ratings: Strategic Approaches to Consumer Complaints — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Co-Thinking with AI
Joint Venture Eligibility Refresher on Requirements for Government Contractors
Compliance into the Weeds: Two Cyber Security Cases for the Compliance Professional
The Road to Regulation: Vehicle Service Contracts Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
AI Today in 5: August 12, 2025, The Creating Billionaires Episode
Compliance Tip of the Day - The ROI of Compliance
AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode
Taxing Intelligence: AI's Role in Modern Tax Administration
Podcast - An Overview of State Attorney General Consumer Protection Enforcement
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
AI Today in 5: August 6, 2025, The Rethinking Compliance Episode
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report, updating the 2021 guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers in line with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The 2021...more
Private credit funds (PCFs) are emerging as key players in the subscription and net asset value (NAV) line market, significantly impacting fund financing. Regulatory changes, economic trends, and strategic innovations are...more
The Registration, Inspections and Examinations Division (“RIE”) of the Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) has released its 2025 examination priorities, which are informed by the OSC’s 2024-2030 Strategic Plan as well as...more
ESMA has recently recommended notable amendments to the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive, which sets the standards for permissible investments by UCITS funds across Europe. These reforms could redefine permissible investment...more
On 26 June 2025, ESMA published its keenly awaited technical advice to the Commission on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive 2007/16/EC (EAD). The report assesses EAD implementation across member states and...more
In a previous alert titled “UK Limited Partnership Reform Becomes Law: A Practical Guide of How Best to Get Ready to Comply,” we discussed the changes to limited partnership law ushered in by the Economic Crime and Corporate...more
On 30 June 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its Final Report on the 2023-2024 Common Supervisory Action (CSA) concerning the integration of sustainability risks and disclosures within the...more
Private funds could be facing a Spider-Man problem. Let me explain. Because he was bitten by a radioactive spider, Spider-Man has superpowers. He can jump really high. He can shoot webs from his hands. When his...more
Spring is a time of renewal, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)–under its new chairman, Paul Atkins–has shown that. On 12 June 2025, the SEC withdrew 14 proposed rules impacting funds and asset managers,...more
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
Global private secondary market transaction volume hit an all-time high of US$160 billion in financial year (FY)-2024, which is up 41 percent from 2023 and has surpassed projections. Private market secondaries have been...more
A corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2024/2987, known as EMIR 3, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. One of the changes EMIR 3 made was to amend the Money Market Funds Regulation (MMF Regulation) by...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published its final report containing revised recommendations for liquidity risk management for collective investment schemes (CIS), accompanied by...more
The process of winding up a Guernsey fund involves several important considerations that boards, fund managers, investment advisers and administrators must navigate carefully. This article explores six aspects which we...more
In the world of outside business activity (OBA) disclosure, many FINRA enforcement actions center on whether a registered person gave, or did not give, prior written notice of those activities to their member firm. These...more
It has been two years since the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) introduced its Rule on Corporate Governance for Regulated Entities (the “Corporate Governance Rule”), and a year and a half since it came into force....more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published findings of its review of smaller asset managers and alternatives business models, together with a press release. The review formed part of the FCA's alternatives...more
Following our September 2024 Alert “Liquidity Management Under AIFMD2: RTS for Open-Ended Funds,” the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now published Final Reports for “Guidelines on LMTs of UCITS and...more
Confession: writing this in May 2025, we cannot predict with confidence what the rest of 2025 will bring. The year has already seen four months of change and upheaval – political, regulatory, and economic. The new US...more
Our investment funds team outline the latest developments within the investment funds market in Bermuda, covering the Bermuda Monetary Authority ("BMA") business plan 2025, BMA Consultation Paper - operational resilience and...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) relating to liquidity management tools (LMTs) under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive...more
On 15 April 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published draft regulatory technical standards (the “Draft RTS”) and final guidelines (the “Guidelines”) on Liquidity Management Tools (“LMTs”), as...more
On 15 April 2024, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive II (AIFMD II) as regards delegation arrangements, liquidity risk management, supervisory reporting, the provision of depositary and custody services and...more
The NAIC Spring National Meeting was held in Indianapolis from March 23-26, 2025. This update reports on some highlights of the Spring National Meeting sessions relating to insurance company investments....more
n light of the significant recent volatility in the financial markets, set forth below are suggested steps that investment managers should consider taking: Trading Agreements: Take inventory of all trading agreements...more