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Beyond the In-House Team: A Smarter Model for Financial Services Marketing
For senior marketing and operations leaders, the traditional in-house creative model, long considered a mark of institutional maturity, is showing some limitations. There’s a certain comfort in having a design team down the hall. You know their names, you can walk over and ask for a revision, and the work feels owned. But comfort and capacity are not the same thing....By: Integreon
AI and Cyber-Enabled Tools Are Changing Sanctions Compliance Risks: Are You Prepared?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the global economy and changing the way business is done, with dramatic implications for how companies manage compliance risk. Cybercriminals and other bad actors have new AI and cyber weapons to facilitate illicit activities at a time when U.S. regulators are increasingly focused on combating cybercrime, fraud, extortion and sanctions evasion....By: Holland & Knight LLP
Cannabis Rescheduling: DOJ Announces Rescheduling of Certain Products
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have issued an order immediately placing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved products containing marijuana and marijuana products regulated by a state medical marijuana license in Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)....By: Holland & Knight LLP
Education Department Proposes New Earnings Accountability Framework for Higher Education
On April 20, 2026, the Department of Education (ED) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for a new rule that would implement the earnings accountability provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The proposed rule, which is a product of negotiated rulemaking, applies to most programs at institutions receiving Title IV funds, including undergraduate and graduate certification programs as well as undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs....By: McGuireWoods LLP
Fintech Acquires National Bank Charter Through $130 Million Deal
Fintechs that have spent years renting balance sheets from partner banks just got a new playbook. On April 29, an online installment lender announced that it had agreed to acquire an Arizona-based national bank for approximately $130 million, positioning the combined entity under unified supervision by the OCC and the Federal Reserve....By: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
5 Key Takeaways | The DOL’s Proposed Investment-Selection Regulations: What Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know
Kilpatrick’s Sterling Perkinson, San Parikh, Megan Casturo, and Andy Mills recently held a webinar discussing “The DOL’s Proposed Investment-Selection Regulations: What Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know.”...By: Kilpatrick
[Video] AI in Healthcare: Five Healthcare AI Stories You Need to Know This Week, May 1, 2026
Welcome to AI in Healthcare in 5 Stories. This podcast is a Weekly Briefing of the five most important AI developments shaping healthcare, medicine, and life sciences. Each week, Tom Fox breaks down the latest stories on clinical innovation, regulation, privacy, compliance, patient safety, and operational transformation through a practical, business-focused lens. Designed for healthcare compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, clinicians, and industry leaders, the podcast moves beyond...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
SEC Broadens Closed-End Fund/BDC Co-Investment Relief to Open-End Funds
On April 27, 2026, the SEC Staff issued a no-action letter to J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (“JPMIM”), an investment adviser to a large complex of registered and non-registered funds,...By: Sullivan & Worcester
SEC and CFTC Propose Significant Rollback of Form PF Reporting Requirements
On April 20, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission jointly proposed amendments that would significantly narrow the scope of Form PF....By: Vedder
U.S. Private Equity Market Recap - May 2026
U.S. PE entered 2026 with real momentum, driven by improving financing conditions, a backlog of delayed processes, and sustained demand for scaled, high-conviction assets. But activity became more selective as the quarter wore on due to various headwinds....By: Ropes & Gray LLP
Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - April 30, 2026
On April 27, Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, reiterated his commitment to his April 2025 memorandum titled “Ending Regulation by Prosecution,” which directed Department of Justice (DOJ) staff to focus resources on bad actors rather than the creators of the crypto tools they use....By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
CFTC Sues Wisconsin Over Prediction Markets
On April 28, the CFTC filed a lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin and certain state officials seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in response to Wisconsin’s recent enforcement actions against several federally regulated prediction market platforms. The complaint alleges that Wisconsin’s application of its gambling laws to contracts traded on federally regulated exchanges is preempted by the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA)....By: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
The Hudson Cook Usury Monitor - A Publication of Recent Usury and Finance Charge Cases - Winter 2025
For those interested in all things "Interest" related, we provide a summary of recent state and federal court cases involving usury, finance charges, and interest rates, as they relate to the consumer and commercial credit industries....By: Hudson Cook, LLP
NCUA Proposes Deregulatory Changes to Credit Union Merger Rules
On April 21, the NCUA announced a proposed rule to amend regulations governing mergers of insured credit unions into banks under the Federal Credit Union Act. The proposal seeks to eliminate prescriptive procedural, disclosure, and communication requirements, with the stated goal of reducing regulatory burden and providing credit union boards greater flexibility in exercising business judgment....By: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
From Purdue to Pat McGrath: Are Opt-Out Third-Party Releases Truly Consensual?
Judge Laurel Isicoff’s April 21, 2026, decision confirming the Chapter 11 plan of Pat McGrath Cosmetics LLC answers in the affirmative the question left open by Harrington v. Purdue Pharma: whether third‑party releases imposed through an opt‑out mechanism can be truly consensual....By: Offit Kurman
OCC Asserts Federal Preemption Over Illinois Interchange Fee Law
On April 24, the OCC announced an interim final rule and a related interim final order clarifying national banks’ authority to charge non-interest fees and concluding that federal law preempts the embattled Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA). The OCC’s interim final rule and order rely on the National Bank Act and related federal banking statutes governing national bank powers....By: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
States Continue Targeting Virtual Currency Kiosks with New Licensing and Consumer Protection Laws
Earlier this month, Virginia (HB 665), Kentucky (SB 189) and Wisconsin (Act 226) enacted new laws regulating virtual currency kiosks, collectively imposing licensing, disclosure, transaction-limit, and fraud prevention requirements on kiosk operators....By: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Cryptoasset Regulation Coming to the United Kingdom: What You Need to Know
Cryptoassets, including cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, are a global phenomenon, and they are attracting increasing regulatory attention in many jurisdictions. In keeping with this trend, the United Kingdom is finalising its regime to regulate cryptoasset businesses that are not currently within its regulatory perimeter. Those cryptoasset businesses will be brought within the UK “regulated activities regime” alongside traditional financial services businesses (such as investment...By: K&L Gates LLP
European Health & Life Sciences Symposium 2026: Key takeaways from Paris
At McDermott’s European Health & Life Sciences Symposium 2026, more than 350 leaders gathered in Paris from across the life sciences and healthcare ecosystem to discuss the trends that are defining the sector’s future....By: McDermott Will & Schulte
Capital Markets & Governance Insights - April 2026
On April 16, 2026, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued an exemptive order that significantly reduces the time certain tender offers for equity securities must remain open....By: Ropes & Gray LLP
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