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Congress passes finalized financial reform bill

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 19 2010

On July 15, 2010, the Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank bill") by a vote of 60 to 39

Washington report

  • Williams Mullen
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2012

This report is designed to provide employees and clients with a summary of anticipated significant Congressional action in 2012

Whisleblowers granted bounties and protection from SEC and CFTC in US financial reform law

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 21 2010

With the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law this week, the US government quietly introduced two parallel whisleblower programs that will provide powerful financial incentives for individuals to report suspected securities or commodities trading violations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC

Financial reform legislation: a guide to the employment-related provisions

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 5 2010

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Wall Street Reform Act) was signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010

The sounds of new whistleblower awards and protections under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 17 2010

With its enactment of financial reform legislation, Congress has elevated and expanded whistleblowing, giving it a more critical and mainstream function in the regulatory and enforcement scheme

Bloomberg article examines whistleblower awards and protections under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 17 2010

In the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), Congress has crafted an array of bounty awards and whistleblower protections broadly affecting securities, commodities and futures, and consumer financial products firms and those associated with them

ERISA advisory - proposed regulation redefining fiduciary

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2010

On October 21, 2010, the Department of Labor (Department) proposed a wholesale revision to its regulation that defines the term “fiduciary” under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code

Whistleblower provisions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2010

On December 6th, the CFTC published for comment proposed rules implementing the whistleblower protection provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act

Sweeping new whistleblower incentives and protections in financial reform bill

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 21 2010

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Whistleblower provisions make noise in new financial reform bill

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 21 2010

The new financial reform bill contains whistleblower provisions that could change how corporations identify potential wrongdoing, interact with their employees and decide whether to report potential violations to the government