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Three recent cybersecurity events highlight the need for companies to review their access controls to limit who has administrator privileges and how long those elevated privileges last.
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We have prepared a visual summary of the results of the Federal Reserve’s 2017 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and the supervisory and company-run Dodd-Frank Act Stress...
The Federal Reserve today released the results of its 2017 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). For the first time since the introduction of CCAR in 2011, the Federal Reserv...
On June 26, 2017, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
split down the middle
over whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appointment of Administrative ...
So far this season 44 shareholder proposals asking companies to appoint independent chairs of boards are on annual meeting ballots. None of the ones voted on have passed, although eight h...
There has been a slow start to financial regulatory reform under the Trump Administration, but the conversation is now changing in ways that are serious and thoughtful. This note highligh...
Decision Yesterday and Two Denials of Certiorari Today Decline to Apply American Pipe Tolling to Statutes of Repose Under Both the ’33 Act and ’34 Act
On June 26, 2017, the United St...
Rules and Regulations
SEC Adopts Technical Amendments to Form ADV and Form ADV-W to Reflect Enactment of a Wyoming State Law Regulating Investment Advisers
House Approves Revised Financi...
IN THIS ISSUE:
Introduction
Supervisory Convergence in Financial Services
Proposals to amend the EMIR Supervisory Regime
On June 23, 2017, we passed the one year mark since the refer...
Rules and Regulations
House Approves Revised Financial CHOICE Act
Litigation
Supreme Court Rules that Five-Year Statute of Limitations Applies to SEC Disgorgement Actions