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The Biden Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk (the Executive Order) is the latest significant step by the Administration to analyze and mitigate the risks that climate change poses to the U.S. economy, businesses, workers and the financial system. Our memorandum focuses on those areas of the Executive Order that are most likely to create…
The Biden Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk (the Executive Order) is the latest significant step by the Administration to analyze and mitigate the risks that climate change poses to the U.S. economy, businesses, workers and the financial system. Our memorandum focuses on those areas of the Executive Order that are most likely to create…
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Examinations (the Staff) recently issued a risk alert reminding broker-dealers (firms) of their obligations under anti-money laundering (AML) rules and regulations, in particular requirements related to monitoring for and reporting of suspicious activity (AML Risk Alert). The AML Risk Alert comes on the heels of…
A recent guilty conviction, after a jury trial, shows how complex and fraught the zigzag path to marijuana legalization is in the payments space. At a time when the federal government has signaled that criminal prosecutions in states that have legalized marijuana are a low to non-existent priority, this prosecution highlights that federal criminal authorities…
Financial services regulatory reform will continue to be active in 2021, with the Biden Administration focused on activity at the intersection of financial regulation and social policy. As we observe the changing landscape, here is the Spring Forward Edition of our reference tool, which provides context and summarizes current and expected developments across a range…
On March 19, 2021, the SEC’s Asset Management Advisory Committee (AMAC) held a meeting to discuss the December 2020 potential recommendations that its ESG Subcommittee provided to the SEC on ESG disclosure requirements. During the meeting, the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Subcommittee of AMAC also made potential recommendations to improve D&I in the asset management…
Digital dollars and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are in the spotlight, and questions abound as to the potential design, availability and functionality of a CBDC in the United States. This deck tracks U.S. congressional legislative efforts that may lead to the creation of a U.S. digital dollar, and we will update it as debates…
Today, the SEC released a statement by Division of Corporation Finance Acting Director John Coates on ESG disclosure. In this post, we provide our observations on what his statement may indicate about the direction of globally coordinated efforts on ESG disclosure.
Acting Director Coates is interested in developing global ESG disclosure standards, stating that the…
