Activist Stilwell Funds has sought to invalidate and enjoin the enforcement of HopFed Bancorp’s bylaws on director qualifications, filing suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The act...

Six years after the initial concept release, the PCAOB announced that it will hold an open meeting next Thursday, June 1, to consider adopting standards on the auditor’s report and prop...

The State Department confirmed in a May 17, 2017, press release that the Trump administration has continued the United States’ nuclear sanctions relief to Iran in compliance with the Jo...

Among the commenters who responded to then Acting Commissioner Piwowar’s request to examine the pay ratio disclosure rules, one company declared that the rule “is one more nail in the...

Few have embraced President Trump’s Executive Order on Core Principles for Regulating the U.S. Financial System as swiftly and decisively as CFTC Acting Chair Christopher Giancarlo.  Hi...

There is no shortage of ideas from the financial sector on how to rebalance financial sector regulation judging by the many reports, white papers and letters that have been sent to Treasu...

A recent Bloomberg report found that 226 no-action letters requesting to exclude shareholder proposals were submitted to the SEC in the first quarter of 2017, a 10% increase over the prio...

A revised version of the Financial CHOICE Act (commonly referred to as CHOICE Act 2.0) was passed by the House Financial Services Committee last week on a strictly partisan vote and will ...

The congressional spending proposal that has dominated the news maintains the SEC budget for fiscal 2017, allowing the SEC to operate with the same funding since the last fiscal year ende...

In mid-April, the NYSE made a rule filing with the SEC to require listed companies to give notice to the Exchange at least 10 minutes before any public announcement about dividends or sto...