The Financial Stability Oversight Council ("FSOC") on October 11 issued a second notice of proposed rulemaking ("Second Notice") regarding its process for designating a nonbank financial company as a systemically important financial institution ("SIFI").

In this article Shula de Jersey and Matt Davies provide a brief mid-year update looking at what the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") has achieved so far this year...

The Securities and Exchange Commission officially adopted the "EDGAR Next" changes to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system ("EDGAR") on September 27, 2024.

The revisions take effect immediately and were published in the Federal Register on December 3, 2025. Notably, in her announcement, Acting Chairman Pham acknowledged the "nearly boundless discretion" the CFTC has "to investigate and prosecute violations of the law, and [to impose] sanctions and penalties that are rarely challenged."

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has clarified that meme coins are not considered securities under federal securities laws, and that transactions involving meme coins do not require SEC registration.

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a "Civil Rights Fraud Initiative" that will utilize the False Claims Act (FCA) against recipients of federal funds who engage in "illegal DEI."

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On November 13, 2011, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ("APEC") leaders endorsed the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules ("CBPR") system at an APEC meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The court vacated the last of the three conditions that were applied to proxy advisory firms as a result of the SEC's 2020 regulation of Proxy Advisory Firms.

The New York state appellate court recently ruled that the lead underwriter in an initial public offering does not owe a fiduciary duty to the issuer of securities to disclose conflicts of interest in connection with the pricing of the securities, unless the two parties have a distinct relationship of higher trust that arises apart from the underwriting agreement.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (the "CSRC") recently issued guidelines allowing Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors ("QFIIs") to trade stock index futures, with effect from May 4, 2011.

On 5 June 2025, HM Treasury released its response and policy update to the carried interest consultation which was launched in the October 2024 Budget ("2024 Budget Consultation") and which ended on 31 January 2025...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA") has published an updated strategic plan ("Plan") setting forth its conservatorship objectives for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the "Enterprises").

I have begun to wonder whether the risk retention TPP agreement is already near its death bed just some brief months following its birth.

PFAS-related consumer class actions continue to face scrutiny at the pleading stage, as illustrated by the recent Aronstein decision regarding adhesive bandages.

Working environments are constantly changing, and so is the law. Technological advancements, evolving employer and employee expectations, as well as new organizational structures are challenging traditional norms.

On Friday 26 June 2020 the Government published the third Treasury Direction concerning the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ("the Scheme")

The Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") recently issued a significant ruling regarding the scope of data subjects' right of access under the GDPR in relation to automated decision-making, including profiling

In a market where competition for fundraising is fierce, it has become essential for GPs to differentiate their propositions to LPs. Sector specialization has been a pathway to delivering this differentiation.

SEC Guidance on Protocol Staking: The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance stated that under specific conditions, staking crypto assets on proof-of-stake networks does not constitute...