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As the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency increasingly injects itself as a regulatory buffer between banks, financial services firms and the CFPB, Senate Democrats are questioning the legality and authority of Acting Comptroller Keith Noreika.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has issued an agency-wide directive and memorandum intended to end “sue and settle” practices at the agency for consent decrees and settlement agreements.

The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act is bipartisan legislation that would allow companies to deploy “defensive measures that exceed the boundaries of one’s network in order to monitor, identify, and stop attackers.”

On Oct. 24, the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on President Trump’s nominations of Hester Peirce, a Republican, and Robert Jackson, a Democrat, to be SEC Commissioners.

New technologies are poised to revolutionize compliance and risk management. But are CCOs and CROs ready and up to the challenge?

The SEC has proposed a plan, as mandated by the FAST Act, to simplify and modernize the Regulation S-K disclosure regime. New rule amendments would also accelerate the use of Legal Entity Identifiers by public companies.

Bipartisan legislation, the Commonsense Reporting Act of 2017, seeks to reduce and modernize employer reporting requirements imposed by the Affordable Care Act.

A new report alleges that President Trump’s deregulatory agenda could boost the bottom line of his businesses. It coincides with the introduction of the DRAIN the Swamp Act, intended to “bring transparency” to how government officials profit from deregulation.

The EPA has announced its efforts to repeal the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan are now underway. The Trump administration estimates the proposed repeal could provide up to $33 billion in avoided compliance costs in 2030.