Compliance

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Amy Sennett
August 13, 2020 11:58 AM

Firms of all sizes should be prepared to respond appropriately and help their clients protect the health and safety of their workforce by complying with ever-changing guidelines from federal, state and local authorities.

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Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, released a stimulus plan that provides enhanced federal unemployment insurance and direct stimulus payments, but does not provide a more direct way of getting funds to taxpayers.
John Adams
July 28, 2020 2:36 PM

Republicans and Democrats are negotiating a new coronavirus stimulus package, but there’s still no law on the books designed to erase the problems that prevented many stimulus payments from getting directly to recipients.

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LIBOR
Samantha Regan
July 13, 2020 10:05 AM

Regulators can only delay the move to a new interest rate index alternative for so long.

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Tobias Salinger
June 30, 2020 4:05 PM

Wealth management firms should define success by how well their operations perform under pressure, Kestra Financial COO Kris Chester says in an episode of Financial Planning’s podcast.

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Brian Christensen
June 23, 2020 11:57 AM

The pandemic is introducing changes — potentially significant ones — to the SOX compliance process.

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Michael Moeser
June 4, 2020 9:00 AM

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way many industries conduct business — and that's especially true of the legal cannabis industry, which was already struggling in the U.S. to find the best way to handle noncash payments.

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Karen Petrou
June 2, 2020 11:27 AM

An interagency notice meant to encourage lenders to offer small consumer loans also provides federal agencies too much say on what constitutes “reasonable” pricing.

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David Heun
June 2, 2020 12:01 AM

In addition to Apple and Google delivering smartphone apps that would alert users that they are near a person infected by the virus, various other government agencies and businesses are developing that type of technology to address the pandemic's spread.

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Eugene Ludwig
June 1, 2020 11:39 AM

Periods of significant loan defaults are tough on banks and force unpleasant choices. Here are steps to evaluate collateral in such uncertain times.

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University of Manitoba
By David Cox
June 1, 2020 11:20 AM

In the U.K., many policy researchers predict that the economic fallout of the pandemic in the U.S. could change attitudes toward the idea of basic income on both sides of the Atlantic.

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