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BoE Feedback Statement On Enhancing The Resilience Of The UK Gilt Repo Market
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a feedback statement to its September 2025 discussion paper which sought views on proposed reforms to enhancing the resilience of the gilt repo market. Respondents were supportive of the objective of strengthening market resilience and broadly agreed with the BoE's assessment of market dynamics, but raised a range of concerns about the proportionality and potential negative spillovers of market wide measures....By: A&O Shearman
ESAs Final Joint Guidelines For ESG Stress Testing Published In All Official EU Languages
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs, comprising the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) published official translations of their joint final guidelines on integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks into financial stress tests for banks and insurers under the Capital Requirements Directive and the Solvency II Directive....By: A&O Shearman
OFAC Issues Advisory to Highlight Sanctions Risks Arising from Sham Transactions
On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released a sanctions advisory entitled Guidance on Sham Transactions and Sanctions Evasion (the “Advisory”) to highlight sanctions risks where blocked persons attempt to evade sanctions in sham transactions. OFAC describes sham transactions as involving transfers or arrangements of blocked property that are structured to conceal, rather than genuinely extinguish, a continuing interest in such...By: Seward & Kissel LLP
KalshiEX LLC v. Flaherty: Third Circuit Signals Federal Primacy Over Sports Event Contracts
On April 6, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a closely watched decision in KalshiEX LLC v. Flaherty, No. 25-1922, affirming a preliminary injunction against New Jersey’s attempt to enforce its gambling laws against KalshiEX LLC (“Kalshi”), a financial services company operating a federally regulated prediction market....By: Vinson & Elkins LLP
SEC enforcement action acts as valuation processes reminder for credit funds
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced a settled administrative enforcement action against a formerly registered investment adviser (the Adviser) in connection with the Adviser’s valuation practices for affiliated principal transactions involving private credit funds it advised....By: McDermott Will & Schulte
Risk #6: Valuation Under Pressure: Market Stress and the Enforcement Lens
Markets have recently been experiencing heightened volatility and credit availability has tightened, which has placed valuation practices under unusual pressure from regulators and investors. The events of the past several years, including rising interest rates, geopolitical turmoil and the impacts of artificial intelligence tools, among other issues, have amplified the inherent challenges of valuing illiquid assets and sparked greater regulatory scrutiny. This is particularly true when marks...By: Proskauer - The Capital Commitment
Accounting-Related Securities Class Action Filings Hit Record Low in 2025
Accounting-related securities class action filings fell from 57 to a historic low of 34 in 2025, although the cases tended to involve larger issuer defendants than in recent years, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research....By: Cornerstone Research
[Video] AI Today in 5: April 9, 2026, The Mythos Edition
Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI. Top AI stories include: • Human in the loop as the ultimate moat. (FastCompany):...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
Directors Quarterly Q2 2026
As companies continue to navigate uncertainty and disruption, the KPMG Board Leadership Center shares insights on ways directors can deepen board engagement in strategy, views on evaluating management's capital allocation skills, and how to help ensure their companies address regulatory divergence as a strategic issue....By: KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)
Plan Design Through the Ages: Why Today’s Best Practices Didn’t Appear Overnight
Retirement plan design didn’t emerge fully formed with the first 401(k). Like most things worth understanding, it evolved—slowly, imperfectly, and often in response to failure. When plan providers and sponsors treat design decisions as plug-and-play features, they miss an important truth: every major plan feature exists because something before it didn’t work well enough....By: Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.
Middle Market Restructurings and Investigations: A Conversation With Novo Advisors Founder Sandeep Gupta
In the latest episode of the TMA Chicago/Midwest Podcast, host and Katten Restructuring Partner Paul Musser sits down with Novo Advisors Managing Partner and Founder Sandeep Gupta. They discusses Sandeep’s “accidental” arrival into restructuring, his entrepreneurial mindset and its influence on his turnaround and restructuring work, the nuances of working with closely held, family-owned businesses versus private-equity sponsored companies, strategies and techniques for middle market...By: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
[Video] GSK In China: 13 Years Later - Whistleblower Emails, a Sex Tape, and the Compliance Failures That Triggered a Global Bribery Probe
Thirteen years after the GSK China scandal exploded onto the global stage, its lessons remain as urgent as ever for compliance professionals and business leaders. In this podcast series, we revisit the case not simply as corporate history, but as a living cautionary tale about culture, incentives, third parties, investigations, and governance. Each episode explores what went wrong, why it went wrong, and how those failures still echo in today’s compliance and ethics landscape. Join us as we...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
U.S. Consumer Resilience and the Impact on the Greater Economy
As the United States economy navigates a rapidly evolving macroeconomic environment, top-line metrics — Q4 2025 gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 1.4% and low unemployment of 4.3% — present a picture of relative stability. These top-line economic indicators are masking the financial fragility of the average consumer. This fragility is particularly acute among low to mid-income groups — comprises approximately 42% of Consumption, roughly 2/3 of GDP — where inflationary pressures on essential...By: Ankura
FinReg Monthly Update - March 2026
Welcome to the FinReg Monthly Update, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK, EU and U.S. financial services regulation....By: Proskauer Rose LLP
Marital vs. Separate Debt: How Debt Is Classified in North Carolina Divorce Cases
When people think about divorce, they tend to focus on who gets the house, the retirement accounts, or the business. Fair enough. Those are the visible pieces....By: Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers,
[Audio] Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Fair Lending Risks at the Checkout Counter — The Consumer Finance Podcast
In this special joint episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Payments Pros, guest host Taylor Gess joins Chris Willis and Lori Sommerfield to unpack fair lending risks in point-of-sale finance. They explain how traditional fair lending concepts under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Fair Housing Act play out when merchants interact directly with consumers, highlighting risks around discouraging credit applications, discretionary offers, differential assistance, and steering between...By: Troutman Pepper Locke
[Video] Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2026, The FCPA 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: • Federal judge to dismiss FCPA conviction....By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
FinCEN’s Residential Real Estate Rule Applicable to Non-Financed Residential Entity Real Estate Transfers PAUSED
UPDATE April 1, 2026 - We have been granted a reprieve from FinCEN residential real estate transfer reporting. On March 19, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a decision in Flowers Title Companies, LLC v. Bessent vacating the FinCEN Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers Rule (RRE)....By: Burr & Forman
DOL Proposed Safe Harbor for Selecting Plan Investment Alternatives
As we previously reported here, the DOL recently issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) which clarifies, and provides a safe harbor for, a plan fiduciary’s compliance with ERISA’s duty of prudence when selecting investment alternatives (including alternative asset investments) for the investment menu for an individual account plan (e.g., a 401(k) plan)....By: Haynes Boone
The Pensions Brief: April 2026
Issues Affecting All Schemes - Finance Act 2026 – Inheritance Tax Changes - The Finance Act 2026 has received Royal Assent. Its key pensions-related provisions introduce changes to the inheritance tax (IHT) treatment of lump sum death benefits paid by registered pension schemes. As previously announced, beginning 6 April 2027, almost all lump sum death benefits will form part of the member’s estate for IHT purposes, regardless of whether they are paid at the trustees’ discretion. The main...By: Mayer Brown
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