Episode 381 -- NAVEX's 2025 Annual Hotline Report
CSC Guidance Unveiled: NIL Enforcement and Implications for Collectives — Highway to NIL Podcast
Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
New Virginia "Workplace Violence" Definition and Healthcare Reporting Law: What's the Tea in L&E?
What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Employers - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Understanding the New Overtime Tax Policies in the Big Beautiful Bill
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
(Podcast) California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Podcast - Navigating the Updated SF-328 Form
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Control Deficiencies
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Hospice Insights Podcast - Election Inspection: Be Proactive to Avoid Costly Election Statement Denials
Compliance into the Weeds: Autonomous AI Whistleblowing Misconduct
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Federal Tax Filing Deadlines and Penalties
(Podcast) California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Virginia and West Virginia
On July 31, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued no-action relief for certain swap reporting counterparties that fail to submit a swap data error correction notification (“NAL 25-25”). This relief...more
On May 21, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Participants Division and Division of Market Oversight jointly issued Staff Letter 25-14 in response to a request from SCB Limited, a Bahamas-based...more
As a result of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) recently extending relief that the Commission originally granted under its 2019 Compliance Statement, security-based swap (SBS) market participants...more
On April 17, 2025, three operating divisions (the “Operating Divisions”) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the Division of Enforcement (“DOE”) provided guidance in CFTC Letter 25-13 (the...more
On April 17, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's ("CFTC") operating divisions ("Divisions") provided guidance in an advisory on the criteria they will use when determining whether to refer self-reported...more
The staff of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) on April 17, 2025 issued an advisory outlining the criteria the agency’s Market Participants Division, Division of Clearing and Risk, and Division...more
On April 17, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Participants Division (MPD), the Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR), and the Division of Market Oversight (DMO)—collectively the Operating...more
On April 17, 2025, the Market Participants Division, the Division of Clearing and Risk, and the Division of Market Oversight (collectively, the "Operating Divisions") of the CFTC, along with the Division of Enforcement...more
On April 17, 2025, three operating divisions of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) jointly issued an advisory to provide guidance on the materiality or other criteria they will use in deciding whether to make a...more
On March 11, acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Caroline D. Pham offered insight into the regulator’s February 25, 2025 advisory in a keynote addressed delivered at Boca, the annual International...more
Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds....more
AT A GLANCE - New guidance on self-reporting, cooperation, and remediation was recently released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement (CFTC). The CFTC’s advisory includes tiered scales for...more
During her keynote address at the Futures Industry Association’s International Futures Industry Conference, BOCA50, CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham announced a new effort to encourage market participants to resolve open...more
The Division of Enforcement of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) recently issued an advisory revoking prior guidance for its staff in recommending enforcement resolutions (the Advisory) and...more
In an advisory announced February 25, 2025, the Division of Enforcement of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) announced a new regime for assessing cooperation credit in determining fines in the...more
The Advisory sets out factors that the Enforcement Division will use to rate self-reporting and cooperation. This rating places a company or individual within a “tier” used to determine the Mitigation Credit amount available....more
This week, the CFTC released an Enforcement Advisory setting forth concrete guidelines for self-reporting, cooperation and remediation that will reshape how market participants report and defend potential violations....more
On February 25, 2025, the Division of Enforcement of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) issued an advisory to Division staff on how to evaluate self-reporting, cooperation and remediation credit...more
January is at least eight weeks – I’m certain of it. Now that it’s February we know who’s running the CFTC and its different Divisions, for the time being. Acting Chair Pham comes to her position with a long history of...more
The new year always marks the start of a busy regulatory filing season for registered investment advisers, including investment advisers that file Form PF (“Form PF Filers”). This year could be especially challenging since,...more
This periodic bulletin is designed to help companies identify important legal developments governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital assets. While the use cases for blockchain...more
Crypto Companies Launch New Products, Expand Partnerships - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently launched Ink, a Layer 2 network built on the Optimism Superchain blockchain. ...more
On December 4, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) released its enforcement results for Fiscal Year 2024 (“FY 2024”), showcasing record awards of monetary relief totaling more than $17.2 billion....more
Our goal is simple, to provide you key updates and insights that you can quickly digest and easily share with your peers, boss, or anyone else that shares a passion for swaps and derivatives news. We know you have to move...more
The concept of the shadow financial system rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In an interview with a Pakistani newspaper a month later, Osama bin Laden stated that Al Qaeda were...more