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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act became law on July 21, 2010, introducing a variety of executive compensation-related regulations, including with respect to shareholder say-on-pay voting and independence requirements for members of the compensation committees and their advisers.

On September 18, the SEC voted 3-2 to propose a new rule requiring public companies to disclose the compensation ratio of CEO to the median compensation of its employees, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act.

Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was signed into law in 2010, directed the SEC to issue rules requiring resource extraction issuers to report annually on payments made to governments.

We previously posted on the Southern District of New York's December 5, 2014 ruling in this matter that internal reports are not protected under Dodd-Frank, as was held in the Asadi case out of the Fifth Circuit.

This week, 22 State AGs led by Wisconsin, sent Hyundai and Kia a letter criticizing the companies' lack of anti-theft immobilizers and use of a customer service campaign instead of a recall to address the problem.

On Wednesday, a panel of four practitioners convened at the ABA White Collar Crime Conference to discuss the future of consumer protection enforcement under the Trump administration.

In Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, Judge Failla in the Southern District of New York compelled arbitration of a Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claim, holding that nothing in the anti-retaliation provision, 15 U.S.C. 78u-6(h), precludes the arbitration of these claims.

On April 4, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued its third and largest award, of more than $10 million, as part of its Dodd-Frank whistleblower program.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) governs virtually all pre-employment background checks of applicants done for employers by third parties

The Obama administration will seek to remove the $1.6 million cap on rewards to whistleblowers who provide evidence of criminal conduct under FIRREA.

NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced his plans to propose legislation that would create a whistleblower incentive program at the state level.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals will decide in Stryker v. SEC, whether the SEC needs to pay Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounties to tipsters.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently deferred to the SEC's determination that a tipster who provided information to the Commission before July 21, 2010, the effective date of the Dodd-Frank Act...

On March 2, 2015, the SEC announced a whistleblower bounty award of between $475,000 and $575,000, its 15th under the Dodd-Frank whistleblower program.

In keeping with its 5-year schedule for comparability range updates to the Energy Labeling Rule (Rule), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on May 25, 2022...

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has recently issued a decision granting an SEC motion for summary judgment to a challenge to the far-reaching SEC Conflict Minerals Rule.

As we mentioned last week, the Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") announced proposed changes to Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), which is the implementing regulation...