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SEC Rescinds Crypto Accounting Rule: What It Means for Money Transmitters and Digital Asset Custody
Accounting Barriers Fall for Banks, Federal Regulators Clear the Path, and the GENIUS Act Reshapes the Competitive Landscape, but State-Regulated Money Transmitters Face Mounting Indirect Pressure...By: Ankura
[Video] Innovation in Compliance: Dr. Rohan Lall: Innovation, Clinical Evidence, and Compliance in Electrifying Spine Surgery
Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with Dr. Rohan Lall, a clinically trained Neurological Surgeon and Chief Medical Officer of SynerFuse, about innovation in spine surgery and the compliance infrastructure needed to...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
[Video] Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2026, The Corporate Retreat from Hell Edition
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 News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. Top stories include: • AI in auditing. (FT):...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
Off-the-Table: Pre-Exit Founder Liquidity in Venture-Backed Startups
For founders and executives at venture-backed startups, equity is often the centerpiece of compensation – and the primary driver of long-term wealth. But unlike cash compensation, that equity is typically illiquid for years. Outside of an IPO or a sale of the company, opportunities to turn shares into cash are limited, tightly controlled and often more complex than anticipated....By: Farrell Fritz, P.C.
Business Email Compromises: Current Legal Trends and Key Strategies
Businesses have for years suffered from a sophisticated, targeted cybercrime that exploits trust, human relationships, and our reliance on digital communication: the business email compromise (BEC). Sometimes referred to as “man-in-the-middle attacks,” BECs are among the most financially damaging cyber-attacks....By: Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the
Weekly Blockchain Blog - April 2026
Crypto Exchanges Achieve, and Seek, OCC Charters; Stablecoin Study Published - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced that it has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter....By: BakerHostetler
CFPB submits $75.8M budget request to Fed for third quarter 2026
On March 30, the CFPB notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon that its acting director had submitted a $75.8 million funding request to the Fed for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026. The notice states that the acting director prepared the request “in accordance with” a separate district court injunction issued in litigation in the District of Columbia....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
NCUA announces eighth round of deregulatory initiative
On March 24, the NCUA proposed a rule to remove prescriptive limits on federally insured credit unions’ ability to purchase or participate in third-party auto loans, marking the eighth round of its ongoing initiative to streamline regulations and remove provisions it considers outdated or duplicative......By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
SEC Enforcement Speaks in 2026: Enforcement Division Moves “Full Steam Ahead” with Focus on Quality over Quantity, Procedural Fairness, and Targeted Pursuit of Non-Fraud Violations
At the 2026 SEC Speaks Conference held in Washington, D.C., Acting Enforcement Director Sam Waldon declared that the Commission’s Enforcement Division is moving “full steam ahead” by focusing on quality over quantity and bringing actions against those who “lie, cheat, and steal.” With case quality as the Division’s benchmark, Waldon rejected traditional metrics—case counts, penalty totals, and aggregate dollar amounts—as effective measures of the SEC’s enforcement program....By: McGuireWoods LLP
The Draft Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026
The draft Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026 were laid before UK Parliament, alongside a draft explanatory memorandum. The draft Regulations propose amendments to the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLRs) to implement the government's consultation response to its 2024 consultation on improving the effectiveness of the MLRs....By: A&O Shearman
The State AG Report – 04.02.2026
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: • FTC Says OkCupid’s Data Sharing Was a Bad Match - • Michigan Republicans Select Doug Lloyd for AG - • Washington Calls Kalshi’s Wager - • FTC Warns Major Payment Companies on “Debanking” - • Florida AG Flags NFL’s Rooney Rule - • Iowa Demands Change Over Data Breach Fallout-...By: Cozen O'Connor
Under Pressure and Proving It
What Marketing Leaders in Financial Services are Doing Differently - The pressure on marketing teams in financial services has been building for years. Tighter budgets, leaner headcounts, more scrutiny from leadership, and a technology landscape that changes faster than most teams can absorb. The question used to be: are we doing enough? Increasingly, it has become: can you prove it?...By: Integreon
CFPB announces 2025 HMDA mortgage lending data now available
On March 31, the CFPB announced that 2025 HMDA Modified Loan Application Register data is now available on the FFIEC’s HMDA Platform for approximately 4,768 HMDA filers. As required by HMDA, financial institutions are to maintain, report, and publicly disclose loan-level information about mortgages....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
United States: Did you Predict This? Why Prediction Markets may be Your Next Compliance Headache.
Prediction markets and event contracts have gone mainstream. Prediction market platforms offer contracts on virtually any event you can imagine, and increasingly advisers and their personnel, including portfolio managers, are signing up. If your compliance program hasn’t caught up to the issues that prediction markets raise, you may have a problem you don’t know about yet....By: K&L Gates LLP
Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: LongueVue Leads Investment in Apex Dental
LongueVue Capital (LVC) has announced a strategic investment in Apex Dental Laboratory Group in partnership with Swaney Group Capital (SGC). Apex, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waco, Texas, operates a network of 16 dental laboratories across 12 states....By: McGuireWoods LLP
Treasury issues first proposed rule under GENIUS Act on state stablecoin oversight
On April 1, Treasury issued an NPRM seeking public comment on its first proposed regulation implementing the GENIUS Act, enacted in July 2025, which establishes a comprehensive payment stablecoin regulatory framework . The proposed rule, which would implement section 4(c) of the act, outlines broad principles for determining whether a state-level regulatory regime is “substantially similar” to the federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins and, when such a determination is made,...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
ESMA Publishes Guidelines On Stress Test Scenarios Under The MMF Regulation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the official translations of its guidelines on stress test scenarios under the Regulation on Money Market Funds (MMF Regulation). The guidelines apply to competent authorities, MMFs and managers of MMFs as defined in the MMF Regulation....By: A&O Shearman
Delaware's Bid for Digital Asset Leadership: Senate Bills 16 and 19 Propose a Modernized Banking and Stablecoin Framework
On March 23, 2026, Delaware senators introduced two companion bills: Senate Bill 19, the Delaware Payment Stablecoins Act ("SB19"), which would create a comprehensive state licensing and regulatory framework for payment stablecoin issuers and digital asset service providers operating with, or on behalf of, Delaware residents; and Senate Bill 16, the Delaware Banking Modernization Act of 2026 ("SB16"), which would add foundational digital asset definitions....By: Jones Day
The CFTC is Watching: Enforcement Director Outlines New Priorities
Speaking recently at NYU Law School, David Miller outlined his enforcement philosophy and priorities as the new head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Enforcement (Division). While emphasizing that the “era of regulation by enforcement is over,” Miller made clear that the CFTC intends to vigorously pursue fraud, manipulation and abuse....By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
2026 Perspectives in Private Equity: GP Stakes Investing in a Maturing Market
According to a recent report by Campbell Lutyens, GP stakes and GP M&A transactions reached record levels in 2025, with deal volume increasing 40% year-on-year. The research recorded 164 private markets GP transactions in 2025 versus 117 in 2024, as the continued maturation of the alternatives universe is driving managers to seek optionality and capital to fund the next wave of platform growth....By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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