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
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
Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2025, The Corruption at the DOJ Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 3, 2025, The Tribute to Ice Edition
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
On June 25, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to extend the compliance deadline for recent amendments to Exchange Act Rule 15c3-3 (the “Customer Protection Rule”) to June 30, 2026. The amendments,...more
On December 20, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a final rule amending SEC rules 15c3-3 (the customer protection rule) and 15c3-1 (the net capital rule). The SEC also amended Form X-17A-5 Part II (the...more
On June 5, 2024, the SEC's Division of Examinations (the Division) released a risk alert regarding the examination of broker-dealers. The alert acknowledges the diversity of the broker-dealer population in the marketplace...more
You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It's a goldfish. Y'know why? It's got a 10-second memory. Be a goldfish. During the pandemic, we have had a lot of lows, as well as a few highs. And that’s just in pop...more
On December 17, 2020, SEC created the Division of Examinations by renaming the now defunct, Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, making it the SEC’s 6th Division joining Enforcement, Corporation Finance, Trading...more
Coming on the heels of the share class initiative, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is at the initial stages of another initiative involving concerns about adviser disclosures and conflicts related to bank...more
The New York Fed released a statement of its policies towards managing its open market operations counterparty relationships with private entities, which includes primary dealers in US Treasury securities. Generally, the New...more
On August 18, 2016, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a new Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) rule series intended as a “lite” framework for the registration and regulation of brokers that...more
The Sixth Circuit last week concluded that Morrison, which held that Section 10(b) does not have extraterritorial reach, is inapplicable to Advisers Act Section 10(b). The DC Circuit, on rehearing, reaffirmed its prior...more
In June, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority updated its interpretations of the Securities and Exchange Commission Rules 15c3-1 (net capital) and 15c3-3 (customer protection). Among other things, FINRA updated its...more
On June 12, Commissioner Kara M. Stein called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to make its net capital requirements for broker dealers more stringent. Commissioner Stein warned that current net capital levels may not...more
The guidance addresses expense arrangements, buy-in procedures, free credit balances, sweep programs, and bulk transfers, among other things. On March 6, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued...more
The limited exemption will provide broker-dealers with more time to make necessary operational or systems changes. On October 17, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order providing a temporary...more