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Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: New FCPA Enforcement Memo - What Does it Say?
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
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Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 22, 2025, The Upping Your Game Edition
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Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
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Great Women in Compliance: The Future of Enforcement with Jennifer Lee
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Navigating 2025: The SEC's Evolving Role in Cryptocurrency Enforcement — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
Private placement debt offerings offer a compelling alternative to traditional lending for many companies. The legal landscape governing these transactions involves key statutes, regulations, and the critical steps required...more
As a follow-up to our prior discussion in this area, this article addresses a recent exemption issued to the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that allows for increased trading...more
On January 2, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the FINRA Rule 6500 Series (the SLATE Rules), which establishes the Securities Lending and Transparency Engine (SLATE), a new facility for the...more
On November 2, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of amendments to Form N-PX and related rules to extend public company stockholder vote disclosure filing requirements beyond...more
The sale of Reverse Yankee bonds by prominent US issuers – often with higher credit ratings – has recently continued at a rapid pace. Reverse Yankee bonds are debt securities issued by US issuers that are denominated in a...more
On October 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new Rule 10c-1a under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (1934 Act), requiring certain persons to report securities loan information to...more
On October 30, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order granting broker-dealers exemptive relief from Rule 15c2-11 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for fixed-income securities sold in...more
Quick Take: The SEC charged an investment adviser in connection with improper trading in certain fixed income securities. The SEC’s order alleges that the adviser improperly traded the securities between advised clients,...more
On Sept. 16, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amended Rule 15c2-11 (the Amended Rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). The Amended Rule, most of which became...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged a broker-dealer and five of its registered representatives with violating Regulation Best Interest (“Reg. BI”) related to recommendations and sales of an unrated,...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority recently filed two rule proposals—SR-FINRA-2022-011 and SR-FINRA-2022-013—with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and issued Regulatory Notice 22-12 in an effort to expand...more
In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity (“ASU 2020-06” or the “ASU”). ASU 2020-06 simplifies an issuer’s accounting for convertible...more
Is today a Business Day? Good question, depends who you ask. The SEC’s EDGAR filing system is closed today for the Juneteenth Holiday. Because today is a federal holiday, today will not count as a business day in the filing...more
Our Securities Group summarizes the many ways the Securities and Exchange Commission has streamlined some statistical disclosure requirements by replacing the 30-year-old Industry Guide 3 with final rules that update and...more
There is some (at least regulatory) good news for CLOs this summer. In late June, the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently adopted amendments to the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings that include certain credit enhancements. The amendments...more
As the world continues to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies are assessing their liquidity position, general balance sheets, near-term interest payments and debt maturities. One way companies with outstanding debt...more
The amendments will become effective on January 4, 2021, with earlier compliance permitted. The amendments focus on providing material financial and non-financial information regarding guarantees and other credit...more
The staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given registered open-end management companies (mutual funds) an additional tool in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis to combat the potentially...more
Decision Reflects Significant Market Disruptions Being Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic - On March 26, 2020, at the request of the Investment Company Institute (the "ICI"), the staff of the Securities and Exchange...more
Amendments eliminate audited three-year guarantor financial statement footnote and separate financial statements of subsidiaries whose shares are pledged; replaced with unaudited combined summarized financial information for...more
On March 2, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments that reduce and simplify the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings for guarantors and issuers of guaranteed...more
On March 2, 2020, the SEC adopted amendments to Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X in order to simplify and streamline the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered offerings of guaranteed debt securities. The SEC...more
Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved FINRA’s proposed amendments to its Corporate Financing Rule, which are intended to modernize, simplify, and streamline the rule....more
The SEC has published proposed changes to Guide 3 which are intended to update, clarify and codify the Guide with the aim of eliminating overlaps between U.S. GAAP, IFRS or other SEC rules, simplifying compliance efforts and...more