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31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 15 – Monitoring and Improving Internal Controls
Great Women in Compliance: Catherine Razzano on Leading with Passion
Compliance into the Weeds: Navigating Return to Office Policies and Corporate Speak Up Culture
Daily Compliance News: January 15, 2025 – The Corruption is Back Edition
Scoping Out Secondaries with Portfolio Advisors' Liz Campbell
Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Markets with HighVista Strategies’ Raphi Schorr
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31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 14 – Internal Controls
Innovation in Compliance: Todd Haugh on Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace - Beyond Financial Incentives
Daily Compliance News: January 14, 2025 The RTO Compliance Edition
Reflections on the Demise of the SEC’s Private Fund Adviser Rule – LP and GP Perspectives
Adventures in Compliance: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes – Business Ethics Lessons in ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 13 – Policies and Procedures
Daily Compliance News: January 13, 2025 The End of Western Civilization Edition
On 8 January 2025, the staff of the Division of Investment Management of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released an updated set of Frequently Asked Questions (the FAQs) related to the amendments to Rule...more
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is giving no-action letters (NALs) a second chance. On January 8, 2025, the CFPB issued a policy statement setting forth new procedures for companies to request supervisory...more
On January 3, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a comprehensive reboot of its No-Action Letter (NAL) and Compliance Assistance Sandbox (CAS) policies. The proposed policies on its face, marks a...more
On January 1, 2025, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey approved House Bill No. 4840, which repeals and replaces Massachusetts’ money transmission law with a revised law (MTL Law), which is based in part on the model Money...more
What Happened? A development with far-reaching consequences for the secondary market, on January 10, 2025, the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation (“OFR”) issued guidance that requires mortgage trusts and their assignees...more
There, 2 rules were used that massively improved the player knowledge. A rule that a natural 21 made from the particular ace of spades and a dark-colored jack paid a bonus was short-lived – but it did give us the modern-day...more
Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) aims to harmonize provisions related to cybersecurity and information and communication technology (ICT) risk management in the financial sector. Its scope covers nearly all entities...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather insights on how companies offering financial products and services collect, use, and monetize consumer payment and personal...more
DORA, the first EU regulation designed to establish a unified and robust digital resilience standard for the financial sector, becomes directly applicable on January 17, 2025, introducing significant penalties and...more
It’s DORA day! The EU financial services sector has been anticipating today since the Digital Operational Resilience Act was published in December 2022. DORA brings a significant shift to the sector in terms of how financial...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a proposed rule under Regulation AA to address the use of restrictive and coercive clauses in consumer financial contracts. This proposal seeks to prohibit terms in...more
On 13 December 2024, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published the first FAQ to assist professionals in the investment sector supervised, authorised, or registered by the CSSF in complying with...more
The SEC has approved FINRA's 6500 rule series, which governs the Securities Lending and Transparency Engine (SLATE). The rules require some financial institutions to report securities loans to FINRA. They also require the...more
On January 10, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) initiated rulemaking processes to examine and create a framework regarding data privacy and consumer protections in the digital payments industry. In a...more
The payments industry continues to evolve in response to the demand for flexible, fast, and secure payment options. Innovations have included payment facilitation, push-to-card services, and real time payments, among others....more
Welcome to a special podcast series on the Compliance Podcast Network, 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program. Over these 31 days of the series in January 2025, Tom Fox will post a key part of a best practices...more
Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance...more
January 16, 2025- The U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing on the nomination of Mr. Eric Scott Turner, to be Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development....more
On January 14, 2025, the CFPB announced that it had filed a complaint against a large national bank for alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA), the Truth in Savings Act (TISA) and TISA’s...more
January 15, 2025 - Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) released the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs legislative and oversight priorities for the 119th Congress....more
Continued pressures created by elevated levels of mortgage interest rates, vacancies, as well as stricter lending policies, point to higher capitalization rates, lower property values and tax appeal opportunities in 2025....more
On January 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will assume office, ushering in significant changes across U.S. federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). With the exit of SEC Chairman Gary...more
Absent SEC or court action, institutional investment managers that meet or exceed certain thresholds face a February 14 deadline to file the first reports with the SEC on Form SHO. Form SHO, which was adopted with Rule 13f-2...more
On January 7, 2025, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) officially revised its Defect Taxonomy (Final Defect Taxonomy) with the publication of Mortgagee Letter (ML) 2025-01 and the related attachment detailing those...more
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) asked for an investigation into the Department of Labor’s (DOL) apparent practice of sharing information obtained from its investigations with plaintiffs involved in ERISA-related litigation. These...more