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After a Funding Round: Refocusing Your Patent Strategy
You just closed a funding round. The wire hit, the board is excited, and it may feel like someone pressed the big red "launch" button. Securing capital is not crossing a finish line; it is strapping your company to a rocket. The engines ignite, the acceleration is real, and the goal is clear: achieve orbit, do not explode on the launchpad....By: Venable LLP
RegFi Episode 96: Rethinking AML: How AI is Transforming Financial Crime Compliance
In this episode, RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk are joined by Matt Van Buskirk, Hummingbird Regtech Co-Founder and CEO, Regulatory, to examine how AI is transforming anti-money laundering and fraud detection. They discuss how AI-driven tools are shifting compliance from manual data gathering to higher-value investigative work, the growing role of blockchain data in identifying illicit activity, and why “compliance by design” may redefine the role of the chief compliance officer....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
RegFi Episode 95: Assessing the Impact of a 10% Rate Cap on Credit Cards
AEI’s Paul Kupiec joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to analyze the potential impact of a proposed 10% cap on credit card balances. Kupiec, a highly respected commentator on financial markets, delves deeply into the economics of the credit card business and assesses what could change if such a cap were implemented. He also shares insights on the challenges facing the Federal Reserve as economic uncertainty and inflationary pressures mount....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
RegFi Episode 94: AI Governance in Consumer Finance
In this RegFi episode co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton examine the evolving policy landscape governing AI in financial services. They discuss the federal government’s push to avoid a patchwork of state AI laws and the extent to which existing consumer protection laws—such as ECOA, FCRA and UDAAP—can address AI-driven risks without new legislation. The conversation also highlights Treasury’s newly released Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework and how public-private...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
RegFi Episode 93: GLBA Preemption and the Future of State Financial Privacy Laws
Rep. Bill Huizenga’s draft bill to modernize the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act could mark the most significant overhaul of U.S. financial privacy regulation in more than two decades. In this episode of RegFi, co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk examine how the proposal would reshape the federal-state balance through broad preemption, introduce new data minimization standards, and expand consumer rights around access and deletion. They also explore the bill’s treatment of financial data...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
If Adopted, Proposed SEC Rules Should Make it Easier for More Closed-End Funds and BDCs to Register and Offer their Securities
The SEC has proposed amendments to its current rules under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) relating to the registration, communication, and offering process for certain business development companies (“BDCs”) and registered closed-end funds (together with BDCs, “Affected Funds”)....By: Sullivan & Worcester
The Coming Wave of Disputes in Data Centre and AI Infrastructure
The global data centre sector is in the midst of the largest infrastructure build-out of the modern era. The Global Sachs Global Institute projects a cumulative AI infrastructure spend of approximately US$7.6 trillion between 2026 and 2031,...By: Vinson & Elkins LLP
Another T[Fill-in-the-Blank]FD Framework in the Works – For People
Climate has the TCFD. Nature has the TNFD. People issues may soon have the TISFD Framework. Launched in early 2025, the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-Related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is a global initiative to develop recommendations and guidance for businesses and financial institutions to understand and report on impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities related to people....By: Ropes & Gray LLP
Deals still get done – but only with a new playbook
Ahead of SuperReturn Berlin 2026, private equity faces an execution environment where structure, financing, and judgment are the real differentiators....By: McDermott Will & Schulte
FinCEN proposes fundamental reform of AML/CFT program requirements
On April 7, 2026, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking (the FinCEN Proposed Rule) that would fundamentally reform the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism......By: McDermott Will & Schulte
Updated 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Advances Through House: Potential Impact on Institutional Investment in Housing and What’s Next?
On May 20, 2026, the House of Representatives (the “House”) passed a new version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (the “House Bill”) by a vote of 396–13....By: Goodwin
RegFi Episode 92: Bridging Policy Gaps in AI-Enabled Consumer Finance
Kelvin Chen, Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Policy at the Consumer Bankers Association, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to discuss CBA’s recent white paper on agentic AI and its implications for consumer payments and financial regulation. The conversation focuses on how existing frameworks like the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E apply in an AI-enabled environment, where gaps may emerge around authorization and liability, and how the broader...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
SEC Proposes Expanded Offering Reforms for Closed-End Funds and BDCs
On May 19, 2026, the SEC issued a release (the “Release”) proposing rule and form amendments intended to facilitate capital formation in the public securities markets. If adopted, the Release would represent a significant step in the modernization of the registered offering framework....By: Ropes & Gray LLP
Managing Margin Compression: Bulge Financing in the Farm Credit System
Summary: Due to tighter margins, variable profitability and reduced cash flow, many agricultural borrowers are seeking incremental credit expansions from Farm Credit lenders on their existing facilities, and we expect that trend to continue this year....By: Moore & Van Allen PLLC
The Desk: May Edition
Enforcement Round-Up - April was one of the most consequential months in more recent CFTC enforcement history, headlined by the agency bringing its first-ever insider-trading charges involving a prediction market, the resolution of several previously filed matters involving commodity pool fraud, and a growing wave of federal preemption suits against states concerning regulatory authority over prediction markets....By: Moore & Van Allen PLLC
COVID Relief Enforcement Is Not Over: Defending Against PPP Fraud Allegations and ERC Disallowances
The Internal Revenue Service’s April 27, 2026, announcement of a streamlined process for filing Form 907 to extend the deadline on Employee Retention Credit (ERC) disallowance challenges was, on its surface, a procedural housekeeping item. But the announcement carried a more substantive message: more than five years after Congress enacted the CARES Act, COVID-19 relief enforcement is not winding down. It is, in many respects, just hitting stride....By: Whiteford
Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - May 28, 2026
FDIC Rolls Out GENIUS Act, BSA, and Sanctions Framework for Payment Stablecoin Issuers - On May 22, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) board approved a notice of proposed rulemaking that would apply Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money laundering (AML), and economic-sanctions compliance standards to FDIC-supervised permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs), as required by the GENIUS Act....By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
CFTC Sues Minnesota, Bringing Prediction Markets Preemption Fight to Six States
The CFTC filed suit against Minnesota in federal district court on May 19, 2026, marking the agency’s sixth lawsuit in seven weeks against a state seeking to regulate or prohibit CFTC-registered prediction markets. Filed one day after Minnesota’s governor signed a first-in-the-nation ban into law, the complaint argues that the state’s criminalization of prediction market operators is preempted by the Commodity Exchange Act and violates the U.S. Constitution....By: Sheppard
Proyecto de decreto en Colombia: Nuevas excepciones en materia de grandes exposiciones
La Unidad de Proyección Normativa y Estudios de Regulación Financiera (URF) en Colombia publicó, el 12 de mayo de 2026, un proyecto de decreto mediante el cual se busca modificar el Decreto 2555 de 2010 en lo relacionado a la gestión de grandes exposiciones y concentración de riesgo de los establecimientos de crédito....By: Holland & Knight LLP
Venezuela Update: May 28, 2026 (Spanish)
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Strategic Advisory Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments impacting the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. Holland & Knight's Venezuela Update is produced in conjunction with Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, a prestigious Caracas-based law firm with which we have had a long-standing relationship, and Arca Análisis Económico, a respected financial, tax, legal and compliance...By: Holland & Knight LLP
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