On February 5, 2018, Jerome Powell was sworn in as Chairman of the US Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Powell also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee.

On November 8, 2017, the US Department of the Treasury announced Kenneth A. Blanco as Director of FinCEN, a bureau in Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

Shearman & Sterling's Real Estate group produced a webinar on the strategies that can be employed by bank lenders to comply with the National Flood Insurance Program regulations.

The first six months of the Trump Administration saw several notable developments for US sanctions, with particular implications for Russia and Iran.

In this quarter, OFAC lifted sanctions on Rusal and other companies following divestment by Oleg Deripaska. Meanwhile, as Venezuela descends into economic and political crisis, the US targeted PdVSA and others to hasten regime change.

The first months of the Biden Administration signaled the new US President's willingness to remain tough on China in the short term.

Closing the year with a renewed focus on the People's Republic of China, the Biden Administration imposed new export restrictions on US-origin technology to Chinese tech firms to...

Global Managing Partner Adam Hakki and partner Agnès Dunogué (both Litigation-New York) co-authored an article in Law360 ...

On June 5, 2018, Jelena McWilliams was sworn in as the 21st Chair of the FDIC. Chair McWilliams succeeds Martin J. Gruenberg, who served as Chairman of the FDIC since November of 2012 ...

On April 27, 2018, Thomas M. Hoenig announced that, effective April 30, 2018, he was stepping down as Vice Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

In this final episode, we explore how AI agents elevate cybersecurity and privacy risks: AI-enabled phishing, deepfakes, prompt injection, model theft, expanded attack surfaces...

Partner Richard Hsu, a CIPP/US/E, CIPT and CIPM Certified Privacy Professional, Global Head of the Intellectual Property Transactions Group and Co-Head of the Privacy & Data Protection practice...

In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal Asian, US, European and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to Asian corporates and financial institutions.

In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal Asian, US, European and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to Asian corporates and financial institutions.

In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and corporates.

In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers...

On November 16, 2016, the CFTC released the results of supervisory stress tests of five major clearinghouses in the US and UK.

Headlines from the final months of 2017 included the signing of a new executive order with global anti-corruption implications;

Finally, OFAC rounded out the year with a notable increase in enforcement resolutions.

This quarter, companies around the globe prepared to exit Iran-related business in the wake of U.S. sanctions snap-back.