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AI Today in 5: August 5, 2025, The AI at the SEC Episode
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
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
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 17, 2025
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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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
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On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (the GENIUS Act), legislation that establishes a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. ...more
Last year’s cryptocurrency market crash a/k/a “the crypto winter” did not cause trembles in the U.S. economy, but it caused enormous losses to its investors. The near collapse of this decentralized currency market resulted in...more
Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Board- Beige Book - June 1, 2022- The Federal Reserve Board published its June 2022 Beige Book....more
Coinbase, the “largest cryptocurrency exchange” in the U.S., revealed on Wednesday that SEC officials are threatening to sue it “over a proposed financial product that would let customers earn interest on digital asset...more
After months of drama that we dutifully catalogued right here, the U.S. plan to “force the sale of TikTok’s American operations” to Oracle and Walmart “has been shelved indefinitely.” The forced sale has “languished since...more
Big Friday win for Apple in its ongoing battle with Epic Games, as N.D. Cal. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Cook & Co. didn’t “need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App Store,” a blow to...more
Walmart is again preparing to roll out its answer to Amazon Prime: Walmart+, a sub-$100/year membership service that features gas discounts and some free shipping (at qualifying thresholds)....more
For the first time, the Federal Reserve system will begin buying corporate bonds—all part of the central bank’s efforts to “support the economy and financial system in the coronavirus crisis.” The NY Fed will kick things off...more
Anticipated House passage later today of the $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill helped swing markets back to a bull run (though let’s keep that bubbly corked, shall we?). The news was enough for Wall Street to shrug off a...more
Tuesday was one of those rare Bear Market good days. Renewed optimism about a forthcoming Congressional stimulus deal (including the estimated $2 trillion it encompasses) and more time to digest the Fed’s commitment to...more
A promise of “unlimited” QE from the Fed Monday morning briefly turned the tides on Dow futures but wasn’t enough to overcome another day of COVID-19-related fears and DC gridlock over the $1.8 trillion stimulus package III...more
Late in the evening March 18, 2020, the Federal Reserve announced the establishment of a new Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF2020) to enhance the liquidity and functioning of prime money markets. The...more
HP has officially rejected Xerox’s enhanced takeover bid, again calling the offer “too low” and decrying its “disproportionate[] benefit” for Xerox shareholders....more
Wall Street apparently got together and decided that Monday was the day to start paying attention to the coronavirus for real. In the form of a massive selloff that left the Dow off more than 1000 points for its worst finish...more
Fiat Chrysler and France’s Peugeot are in the midst of merger talks that, if finalized, could “create a nearly $50 billion trans-Atlantic auto giant.” One option being bandied about in the “fluid” talks is an “all-share...more
As pretty much expected, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates a quarter point again yesterday, its second cut since late July. Fed Chair Powell also indicated in remarks after the FOMC broke that a “‘more extensive’ series...more
A survey of the country’s most powerful CEOs by the Business Roundtable shows an interesting shift in how they view their top priority—no longer does advancing the interests of shareholders take the top spot. Instead, the...more
A volatile August on Wall Street has insiders asking whether we should be taking our cues from 1998 or 2007. With that in mind, our financial term of the week is “countercyclical capital buffer,” a wonkish special for you...more
The big takeaway from Day 1 of Fed Chair Powell’s Congressional testimony is that a July rate cut is still definitely on the table, despite last week’s strong US jobs numbers. As the Times puts it, “That the Fed is...more
Concessions wrenched from EU leaders aside, PM May and her latest Brexit plan again fell apart in Parliament, with lawmakers voting it down 391-242. The defeat raises the ongoing specter of a no-deal departure from the Union...more
The Fed will wrap up its Open Markets Committee meeting today, and the recent dive on Wall Street has rather suddenly brought a bit of drama to what was a long-promised rate hike. Here’s a bit of background on what it’s been...more
As widely expected, the Fed held rates steady when it wrapped its Open Market Committee meeting yesterday afternoon and deemed the economy “in good health,” laying the groundwork for another rate increase next month....more
New York has sued Exxon Mobile over its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholder the “expected risk of climate change to its business”—behavior that the state asserts amounts to a “’longstanding fraudulent scheme’ to...more
The Federal Reserve bank released the minutes from its September meeting yesterday. Among other things, we learned that the Fed Governors moved largely in lockstep on September’s rate hike, even as the crew was less unanimous...more
The SEC has opened a probe into Guggenheim Partners’ asset-management arm over an $85-million real-estate transaction and a series of other deals involving ABS Capital—including a loan to BCBG Max Azria just months before the...more