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Today's Podcast Episode: The Future Of Shareholder Arbitration In Light Of SEC's New Policy Statement

This week on the award-winning Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, host Alan Kaplinsky is joined by Senior Counsel Mark Levin and special guest Professor Mohsen Manesh...

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Redress Done Right: A Blueprint For Large-Scale Financial Remediation

A financial institution was accused of charging excessive or unfair overdraft fees that allegedly caused significant financial burden on its customers.

United States Finance

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Ankura Consulting Group LLC

The Future Of Shareholder Arbitration In Light Of SEC's New Policy Statement (Podcast)

This week on the award-winning Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, host Alan Kaplinsky is joined by Senior Counsel Mark Levin and special guest Professor Mohsen Manesh for a powerful roundtable...

United States Litigation

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Ballard Spahr LLP

SEC Staff Clarifies Broker-Dealer Custody And Trading Of Crypto Assets

In December 2025, the staff (the "Staff") of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets ("TM") issued a statement on the custody of crypto asset securities by broker-dealers (the "December Statement")...

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Dechert

OECD Publishes Policy Brief On Financing Instruments And Policy Levers To Harness Biomanufacturing For Climate, Biodiversity, And Growth

United States Finance

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Bergeson & Campbell

Going On The Offensive To Improve Advisers Act Disclosures

United States Finance

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WilmerHale

Private Credit ETFs For Retail Investors: Yield Potential, Liquidity Risks And Regulatory Scrutiny

United States Finance

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Federal Reserve Proposes Skinny Master Accounts

United States Finance

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Davis Wright Tremaine

CFPB Adjusts HPML Asset Exemption Threshold

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

UK Ring-fencing Reform: Why The Ring-fence Should Be Recalibrated, And How

United States Finance

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A&O Shearman

Digital Asset Exchange Receives CFTC Approval For US Prediction Markets, Signaling An Opportunistic Outlook

United States Finance

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

A Leaner CAT For 2026: SEC Mulls Proposed $55–$73 Million Cost Reduction

United States Finance

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Why Judge Jackson Is Wrong: The CFPB Cannot Be Lawfully Funded When The Federal Reserve Has No Profits

United States Consumer

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Ballard Spahr LLP

New York FAIR Business Practices Act Bolsters State's Consumer Protection Framework

United States Finance

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Winston & Strawn LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 265

United States Healthcare

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Davis Wright Tremaine

Countdown To Jan. 1, 2026: Preparing For California's New AI Training Data Transparency Obligations

United States Technology

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Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Federal Circuit: Priority Document That 'Broadly Outlines' Possible Structures Fails To Provide Adequate Written Description Support For Subgenus Of Linkers In Antibody-Drug Conjugate

United States IP

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Visa Turbulence: Navigating Your H-1B Future In A Shifting U.S. Landscape (Video)

United States Immigration

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Green and Spiegel

Green And Spiegel, U.S. Announces New Initiative To Protect Citizens Overseas

United States Immigration

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Green and Spiegel

New York's "Stay Or Pay" Prohibition Could Implicate Common Employee Compensation Arrangements

New York prohibits arrangements requiring employees to repay or reimburse their employer: The newly enacted Trapped at Work Act bars employers from enforcing agreements that require workers to repay...

United States Employment

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Polsinelli LLP

Ohio Walks Back Prior Small Loan Act Guidance, Eases Licensing Position For Bank Partnerships

Around Christmas 2024, the Ohio Division of Financial Institutions ("DFI") left a lump of coal in marketplace consumer lenders' proverbial stockings by issuing guidance that asserted a license...

United States Finance

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Mayer Brown

Ohio Walks Back Prior Small Loan Act Guidance, Eases Licensing Position For Bank Partnerships

Around Christmas 2024, the Ohio Division of Financial Institutions ("DFI") left a lump of coal in marketplace consumer lenders' proverbial stockings by issuing guidance that asserted...

United States Finance

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Mayer Brown

Illinois Revamps The Scope Of Its Collection Agency Licensing Law

Illinois is making important changes to the scope of the state's Collection Agency Act and the reach of its collection agency licensing obligation.

United States Finance

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Mayer Brown

CFPB Restores And Enhances 2020 Interpretation That Earned Wage Access Is Not "Credit"

United States Finance

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Davis Wright Tremaine

Illinois Revamps The Scope Of Its Collection Agency Licensing Law

United States Finance

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Mayer Brown

District Court Refuses To Modify Preliminary Injunction Against CFPB While Clarifying That CFPB Is Not Precluded From Requesting Operating Funds From Fed Because Of Fed's Losses

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

State AGs File Suit To Force CFPB To Request Funding From The Federal Reserve

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Stablecoins Are Entering The Capital Markets Era: What Tether's Reported $20 Billion Raise Signals For The Industry

United States Technology

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Caldwell

Significant 2025 Deregulatory Developments In Banking Law (Podcast)

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Today's Podcast Episode: Significant 2025 Deregulatory Developments In Banking Law

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Instructions For Facilitating A Child's Home Purchase

United States Finance

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Wiggin & Dana

Will The Trump Administration Re-'Order' 401(k) Plan 'Alternatives'?: Part 1

United States Commercial

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Dechert

Back To The Futures: CFTC's No-Action Letter Largely Reinstates 2003's Regulation 4.13(a)(4) On An Interim Basis

United States Finance

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Pryor Cashman LLP

Today's Podcast Episode: Significant 2025 Deregulatory Developments In Banking Law

Join host Alan Kaplinsky, founder and former longtime leader of Ballard Spahr's Consumer Financial Services Group and one of the foremost thought leaders in the industry...

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Instructions For Facilitating A Child's Home Purchase

Many of our clients want to facilitate their child's purchase of a home. In doing so, there are several options to consider

United States Finance

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Wiggin & Dana

Will The Trump Administration Re-'Order' 401(k) Plan 'Alternatives'?: Part 1

In August 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order intending to expand access to alternative assets (such as private equity, real estate, private credit and digital assets).

United States Commercial

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Dechert

Back To The Futures: CFTC's No-Action Letter Largely Reinstates 2003's Regulation 4.13(a)(4) On An Interim Basis

In a no-action letter issued on December 19, 2025[1] (NAL), the staff of the Market Participants Division (MPD) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reinstated the exemption from commodity pool operator...

United States Finance

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Pryor Cashman LLP

CFPB: Earned Wage Products Are Not Loans Under TILA

United States Consumer

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Federal Reserve Adopts 2025 Policy Statement On Permissible Novel Activities For State Member Banks

The Fed withdrew its prior 2023 Policy Statement and replaced it with a new, pro-innovation statement removing the rebuttable presumption against novel activities...

United States Technology

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Davis Wright Tremaine

Today's Podcast Episode: The CFPB's Most Ambitious Regulatory Agenda Ever – Part 2

Today's episode features Part 2 of our November 4 webinar, "The CFPB's Most Ambitious Regulatory Agenda Ever." (Part 1 of this series was released on December 18.

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Crypto Investor Protection: SEC And CFTC Enforcement Trends

Crypto investor protection continues to evolve, with the SEC and CFTC investing resources and coordinating more closely to uphold regulatory standards. Whether you're a retail investor, an institutional trader, or part of...

United States Technology

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Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC

FDIC Proposes Application Process For GENIUS Act Compliance

The FDIC released a proposed rule that would establish an application process for FDIC-supervised banks to issue "payment stablecoins" through a subsidiary pursuant to the GENIUS...

United States Finance

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Davis Wright Tremaine

Regulatory Reset: CFTC Pulls Back On Guidance For ‘Actual Delivery' Of Digital Assets

United States Finance

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Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP

Amendments To Exchange Act Section 16(a) Extending Insider Reporting To Foreign Private Issuers Enacted

United States Finance

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Jones Day

SEC Clears Path For Tokenized Securities

United States Technology

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

CFTC's Wells Process Reforms Favor Market Participants, Solidify Respondent Protections In Enforcement Action Review Process

United States Finance

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Steptoe LLP

Federal Reserve Board Requests Public Input On Limited Payment Accounts

United States Finance

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Steptoe LLP

Fed Replaces Policy Statement On Novel Banking Activity Limitations

United States Technology

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Steptoe LLP

Proposed HIRE Act Targets Offshoring With 25% Excise Tax On Foreign Service Payments

United States Tax

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MGO CPA LLP

SEC Publishes A Flurry Of Crypto-related Statements Aimed At Regulatory Clarity

United States Technology

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Jones Day

CFTC Relief Eliminates Dual US Regulation Of Certain Investment Managers

United States Finance

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2026 SEC Filing Deadlines And Financial Statement Staleness Dates

United States Commercial

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Mayer Brown

Cheat Sheet—FCA's New Targeted Support Regime Summary

United States Finance

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A&O Shearman

An Exciting New Chapter For Cadwalader And Our Real Estate Clients

United States Real Estate

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FDIC Proposes GENIUS Act Application Process For IDI Subsidiary Stablecoin Issuers

United States Finance

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Mayer Brown

Providing Useful Tools: FINRA Releases Its 2026 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, Together With A FINRA Unscripted Podcast Filled With Senior Leadership Insights

United States Finance

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

FDIC's Proposed Stablecoin Issuance Rules For State Nonmember Bank Subsidiaries

United States Finance

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP

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Subscription Credit Facilities: Concentration Limits

United States Finance

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Mayer Brown

Can, And Should, The U.S. Government Develop A CBDC System?

United States International

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

ImpactDAOs: Shaping The Future Of Regenerative Organizations

United States Technology

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Evolving Legal Issues For NFTs

United States Technology

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Executive Order On Digital Assets A Welcome Start To Responsible Regulation

United States Technology

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Approaches To Regulation For Decentralized Finance

United States Technology

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Developing Digital Approaches To Trade Finance

United States International

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

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AIFMD 2.0 Digest: What's Next For Non-EU Managers? (Podcast)

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Proskauer Rose LLP

Emerging Manager Minute (Video)

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Growth, Innovation And Resilience: What To Expect From Private Equity In Europe In 2026 (Video)

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Ropes & Gray LLP

Designated Gifts — Honoring Intent, Avoiding Liability (Video)

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Michael Best

Cari's Legal Exchange: Regulatory Risks And Enforcement Realities — Part 2 (Video)

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Winston & Strawn LLP

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