RegFi Episode 7: Fintechs, Bank Partnerships and the Evolution of Financial Supervision with Konrad Alt
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Crypto Year in Review 2022: Crypto Enforcement and the U.S. Treasury - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Commercial Financing Regulatory Developments - The Consumer Finance Podcast
2021 Financial Services Priorities: Fairness and Equality
De Novos During the Time of COVID-19
Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
The Beneficial Ownership Transparency Act, 2023 (the “BOT Act”) is now in force. The BOT Act was gazetted in December 2023 and was brought into force on 31 July 2024 by the BOT Act Commencement Order. The new Beneficial...more
Matt Bisanz interviews former financial regulator Jason Cave to discuss developments in resolution and recovery planning, as well as trends in third-party risk management....more
Several federal financial regulators (the “Agencies”) have approved and published an interagency proposal to establish data standards that promote interoperability of financial regulatory data across these agencies (the...more
The FUTURES Act, a bipartisan legislative initiative recently reported by the House Financial Services Committee as part of a larger financial institutions legislative package, aims to foster technological modernization...more
Welcome to the first instalment of 2024 of our Cayman Islands Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review. As we cover in this issue, there have been a number of updates in the first quarter of the year. Perhaps most notably is the...more
2023 was an active year for the Cayman Islands regulatory industry. While we have endeavoured to keep you updated throughout the year with our Regulatory & Risk Advisory Reviews, our team has highlighted below the key changes...more
Our insurance finance practice continues to grow at pace and is now regularly called on by clients to assist on credit facilities being put in place for Cayman licenced insurers. Traditionally the transactions and facilities...more
Editor's Note - The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency,...more
Part and parcel of practising law in the Cayman Islands regularly involves dispelling commonly held but mistaken myths around Cayman as an international jurisdiction. One such misconception which inexplicably persists in some...more
On May 5, 2023, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a bill for consideration by the New York State Legislature that would implement comprehensive and far-reaching regulation of digital asset activities in the...more
Multiple U.S. government agencies have pursued a stream of enforcement actions in the digital asset industry in recent years. In fiscal year 2022, 20% percent of the enforcement actions brought by the Commodity Futures...more
La Unidad de Regulación Financiera (URF) de Colombia publicó la versión definitiva de la Agenda Regulatoria de la entidad para el año 2023. El documento define las principales temáticas que serán objeto de desarrollo...more
One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges - FTX Trading Ltd. - and many of its affiliates filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. While the full impact of the FTX bankruptcy is not yet clear, various responses from...more
Regulatory scrutiny of the use and management of cryptocurrency and other digital assets such as utility tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) (collectively, cryptoassets) is rapidly growing on both sides of the Atlantic....more
The SEC has received two comment letters from members of Congress--one from the House of Representatives and one from the Senate--criticizing its proposal for mandatory climate disclosures....more
Popular and institutional interest in digital assets, decentralized applications, NFTs, and blockchain technology skyrocketed, and regulators sprinted to catch up. For the digital asset markets, 2021 was a banner year....more
During the past six months, the US Treasury, the US banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have pursued several regulatory or enforcement initiatives...more
In This Issue. Several federal financial regulatory agencies updated their Spring 2021 regulatory agendas; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its intention to restart Military Lending Act examinations;...more
Kevin Kelly, leader of Clark Hill’s Government and Regulatory Affairs Group, stops by Credit Eco to Go with Joann Needleman to discuss the changes in Washington and what financial services entities need to do to prepare for...more
Refinements to the regulatory framework are needed before banks can make widespread use of securitization by European banks. Volumes of non-performing loans (NPLs) European banks have halved since 2015, driven by an...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to take steps toward implementation of its security-based swap (SBS) dealer registration framework. A particular area of concern for market participants has been how the...more
With the regulatory agenda for the US operations of foreign banks in a state of flux, Kevin Petrasic, Paul Saltzman, Glen Cuccinello, Will Giles and Alexander Abedine of global law firm White & Case provide a map to help...more
The Taskforce’s final report outlines the UK’s policy and regulatory approach to crypto-assets and distributed ledger technology in financial services. Key Points: ..The Report provides an overview of crypto-assets and...more