An Introduction to DAFs and Overview of the Newly Proposed DAF Regulations
Analyzing the Treasury's Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Look at the Treasury Department’s April 2023 Report on Decentralized Finance or “DeFi”
Torres Talks Trade podcast Episode 8 on Worker-Centered Trade
Kilptrick Townsend Digital Assets Minute | U.S. Treasury—Comments on Digital Assets Development Due August 8th
Stablecoin Regulation in an Unstable Time: The Fed and Treasury Address a Stablecoin Regulatory Framework
New Regulation: Statutes, Pillars, and the Build Back Better Act
Congressional and Federal Agency Action Following Executive Order on Digital Assets Policy
#WorkforceWednesday: OSHA ETS in Review, Texas Vaccine Mandate Ban, Health Premium Incentives - Employment Law This Week®
Podcast: What's New for Insurers in Mental Health Parity Compliance - Diagnosing Health Care
Williams Mullen's COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Preparing Today for Tomorrow's PPP Audit
AF COVID-19 Podcast: PPP Loan Forgiveness - What Dealers Need to Know
Employment Law Now IV-62-Weekend Roundtable Discussion on Various Impacts of the Federal CARES/Coronavirus Programs
Qualified Opportunity Zone Update: Highlights of Treasury's Second Set of Proposed Regulations
Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
Podcast - New Unrelated Business Taxable Income Liability for Providing Certain Fringe Benefits
Podcast - Chamber of Commerce v. Internal Revenue Service
AML BSA and Sanctions Compliance Part II of II June 24, 2014
AML BSA and Sanctions Compliance I of II June 10 2014
April 11, 2024- U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) introduced the bipartisan Ransomware and Financial Stability Act....more
November 1, 2023- The Federal Open Market Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent. November 1, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance...more
June 20, 2023- The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) Office of Inspector General released a report entitled, "The Board Can Enhance Its Procedures and Controls for Protecting Confidential...more
March 7, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress." March 7, 2023- U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of...more
November 30, 2022- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, wrote to U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Committee (FSOC) Janet...more
November 16, 2022 The U.S House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring the Safety, Soundness, Diversity, and Accountability of Depository Institutions." The...more
Hearing: Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission- September 15, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the U.S. Securities and...more
August 1, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced its current estimates of privately-held net marketable borrowing for the July – September 2022 and October – December 2022 quarters....more
July 20, 2022- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, "Housing in America: Oversight of the Federal Housing Finance Agency."...more
July 18, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury released Treasury International Capital data for May 2022. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen's Meetings with Counterparts at the G20 Finance Ministers and...more
July 12, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a notice seeking public comment regarding potential opportunities and risks presented by developments and adoption of digital assets as part of its work under...more
Congress- U.S. Senate- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs- Hearing: Considering the Index Fund Voting Process-...more
Federal Agencies- Securities and Exchange Commission- SEC Investor Advisory Committee to Discuss Non-Traditional Accounting and Climate Disclosure on June 9-...more
Major Developments- Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Board Speech: Responding to High Inflation, with Some Thoughts on a Soft Landing- ...more
Congress- U.S. House of Representatives- Committee on Small Business- Committee Announces June Hearings- May 27, 2022- The House Small Business Committee announced several committee hearings throughout June:...more
Congress- U.S. House of Representatives- Committee on Financial Services- Hearing: Digital Assets and the Future of Finance: Examining the Benefits and Risks of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency-...more
Like most industries today, Consumer Finance Services businesses are being significantly impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Troutman Pepper has developed a dedicated COVID-19 Resource Center to guide clients...more
In this Issue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued guidance on its authority to charter limited purpose trust companies, raising the possibility that a limited purpose national bank could be organized...more
In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert about the scope and content of examinations OCIE plans to conduct of various...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) released an interim final rule to reflect changes made by H.R. 7010, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act,...more
Like our clients, Holland & Knight's Financial Services Industry Group is committed to actively contributing to our nation's response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related economic fallout and recovery efforts. ...more
Today’s federal government actions in response to COVID-19 include additional details on President Trump’s Tuesday evening Executive Order on meat and poultry processors....more
Priming the Pump. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), consistent with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), took additional...more
In This Issue. Federal and state regulators continued to take action in the wake of the ongoing global outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). As discussed in several Goodwin client alerts, Congress passed, and the President...more