Joe Mont

A massive, soon-to-launch SEC database faces renewed scrutiny and delay demands in response to a recently disclosed cyber-breach.That attack, and other breaches, are also serving as the catalyst for both new and resurrected legislation in Congress.

The data breaches at Yahoo, Equifax, and the SEC send a collective warning to organizations everywhere to improve their own third-party risk assessment.

Haydee Ortiz Olinger reflects on her 31 years as McDonald’s global compliance chief and what lessons she learned from her crucial role at the fast food giant.

Four years in the making, and the penultimate step in a six-year plan, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has opened its latest “Exposure Draft Standards” for 79 industries for public review.

The Treasury Department has released its second report, as demanded by a presidential order, with recommendations to streamline the regulatory system and improve capital markets.

Plunging itself into yet another industry-led political battle, the CFPB has finalized new payday lending rules. It will require that lenders determine upfront whether customers can afford repayment.

Rep. Maxine Waters has unveiled the Megabank Accountability and Consequences Act, legislation demanding that federal banking regulators initiate proceedings to wind down big banks that repeatedly violate consumer protection laws.

Bipartisan legislation is looking to bring regulatory relief to regional banks and bring about new ways for calculating whether an institution should be designated as systemically important.

President Trump and his administration are claiming that an ongoing deregulation agenda has saved the nation an estimated $300 million. Meanwhile, those efforts are bolstered by the creation of a new, like-minded business group.

Legislation that would clarify lingering legal conundrums about autonomous vehicles is working its way through the Senate with the American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies Act.