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
A recent circular issued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has created a pathway to listing closed-ended alternative asset funds in Hong Kong, generating interest among both local private market...more
Since 2002, the staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) consistently issued comments during the registration statement review process to closed-end funds (CEFs) registered under the Investment Company Act of...more
On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued an order granting Franklin Square's ("FS") exemptive relief application (the "FS Application") permitting certain business development companies...more
In our previous alert Paying for Buy-Side Investment Research: New Rules Ease the US-UK Divide | Insights & Resources | Goodwin we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) final rules in its policy paper PS24/9:...more
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently published OSC Rule 81-510 Dealer Rebates of Trailing Commissions (the “Rule”), which codifies temporary exemptive relief from the order-execution only (“OEO”) trailer ban...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a trends, risks and vulnerabilities (TRV) risk analysis report on ESG-related changes to fund names and their impact on investment flows. The report examines...more
The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) facilitates the trading of diverse securities, including investment funds (both open-ended and closed-ended), corporate and retail debt, eurobonds, equities (domestic and...more
In a March 12, 2025 no-action letter, the SEC staff provided commonsense guidance relating to verification of accredited investor status under rule 506(c). The guidance aligns with industry practice and has the potential to...more
The CrowdStrike computer failures that swept the globe on Friday, July 18, 2024, and persisted through the weekend may have impacted fund advisers relying on the Windows system, possibly triggering an “operations event” that...more
In a continuation of recent court decisions overturning the rulemaking authority of federal agencies, a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC)...more
On June 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had exceeded its statutory authority in adopting its controversial private fund advisers rule....more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) has thrown a wrench into the gears of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in its attempt to regulate those investment advisers that...more
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Fifth Circuit) today issued its ruling striking down the “Private Fund Advisers Rule” (the “PFA”). The proposed PFA was introduced on February 9, 2022 (“Proposed Rule”). The Securities and...more
To understand the litigation and regulatory risks that are coming in 2024 for private capital, it is helpful to look back briefly on recent events. Arguably, the single most important event over the last 18 months was the...more
Recent client alerts have provided an overview of the new “private fund rules” adopted in late August by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These rules apply, subject to limited exceptions and carveouts, to...more
New rules are expected to have substantial impact on funds industry - On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") approved significant new rules applicable to advisers of private funds (the "Private...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) last week adopted highly anticipated new rules and amendments (the “Adopted Rules”) to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”), that will...more
In a 3-2 vote on August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) adopted five new rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”), collectively called the “Private Fund...more
On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) approved by a 3-2 vote a final rule enacting a series of wide-sweeping changes to the regulation of the private funds industry (the “Final Rule”). While...more
Earlier this summer, we wrote about both new and amended rules proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”) regarding private funds, their advisers,...more
With the new year comes a number of annual compliance obligations for evaluation by investment fund managers. In addition to the obligation for registered investment advisers to conduct an annual review of their compliance...more