SEC News Feed

• SEC Files Charges in Elaborate Microcap Stock Fraud
• SEC Charges Cognizant and Two Former Executives With FCPA Violations
• SEC Extends Comment Period for Rulemaking Proposal Regarding Updated Disclosure Requirements and Summary Prospectus for Variable Annuity and Variable Life Insurance Contracts
• SEC Charges Former Senior Attorney at Apple With Insider Trading
• Deloitte Japan Charged With Violating Auditor Independence Rules

Securities Docket News Wire

• Judge Reverses Blockvest Decision: ICOs Are Securities | LinkedIn
• SEC Charges Former Senior Attorney at Apple With Insider Trading
• Is There a First-Drafter Advantage in M&A?
• Feb. 22 Webcast: SEC Enforcement — Current Developments and What’s Ahead for 2019
• SEC Charges Former Executives of Plastics Manufacturer with Fraud

CFTC Press Releases

American Banker Law & Regulation

• SoFi plans new lending products and move Into stock trading
• Deutsche Bank reverses pledge to help distressed homeowners
• Wells' tech snafu, BB&T-SunTrust cont'd., JPM Coin: Top stories of the week
• USAA ordered to improve risk management, information security
• Recipe for an East Coast regional

DerivAlert Derivatives Regulation News

FINAlternatives Regulation News

• Survey Reveals Investment Managers' Greatest Challenge with MiFID II
• Amundi Announces Absorption Of MiFID II Research Costs
• Toomey: Carried Interest Likely To Be Addressed In Senate Tax Plan
• SEC Grants 30-Month Reprieve On MiFID II Research Requirements
• Man Group Reverses MiFID II Research Decision, Will Absorb Costs

CCH Financial Reform News Center

• OCC issues revised dataset for use in 2019 stress tests
• Democrats write to CFPB opposing changes to payday loan rule
• OFR establishes data collection for centrally cleared funding transactions
• Perdue sponsors bill to subject CFPB to congressional appropriations process
• Financial Research Advisory Committee to hold open meeting

MyCorporateResource Financial Services

WebCPA Regulation Channel

Payments Source Regulation

• A Visa, Mastercard interchange hike could inflame fee war
• Barclaycard and SAP team for supply chain virtual cards
• New development tools pose a new data breach threat
• 2.15.19 Your morning briefing
• Alipay beyond China: Everything you need to know

The BD/IA Regulator

• The SEC Continues to Spread Sunshine on Private Equity: Reflections on Two Recent Enforcement Actions
• FINRA’s 2019 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter Highlights Broker-Dealer Online Distribution Platform Activities
• Beware of Texting While Advising: OCIE Issues an Electronic Messaging Risk Alert
• OCIE Publishes 2019 Enforcement Priorities
• First SEC Enforcement Action Against Unregistered Digital Token Exchange

Reuters: Financial Regulatory Forum

The Hill: Banking/Financial Institutions

• Tech looks for lessons from Amazon HQ2 fight
• Business, conservative groups slam Trump’s national emergency declaration
• On The Money: Trump declares emergency at border | Braces for legal fight | Move divides GOP | Trump signs border deal to avoid shutdown | Winners, losers from spending fight | US, China trade talks to resume next week
• Key author of GOP tax law joins Ernst and Young
• Trump predicts 9th Circuit will rule against emergency wall declaration

NYT Dealbook – Legal/Regulatory

• British Regulator to Examine Competition in Investment Banking
• Women and Minorities Make Slight Gains at Law Firms
• U.S. Announces Third Bitcoin Auction
• 8 Tax Loopholes the Obama Administration Could Close
• A Call for Law Firms to Go Public

Jim Hamilton – Securities Regulation

• United stockholder loses challenge to ex-CEO’s severance
• IOSCO finds gaps in implementation of key market principles in emerging member jurisdictions
• Corporate political disclosure remains hot topic in new Congress
• Upcoming cryptocurrency guidance should cast Howey net narrowly, Commissioner Peirce urges
• Murphy & McGonigle attorneys expect more aggressive offshore enforcement in wake of Scoville decision