rest in crankiness, Grumpy Cat

putting on the record what's been expected law360.com/articles/11606…

ICYMI: the FTC is cracking down on companies that buy data about consumers who didn't know their info was up for sale, "essentially funding this ecosystem of deception on the internet," Andrew Smith said. “We’re going after everybody in the ecosystem." law360.com/articles/11601…

big cancer patents, big win for Foley Hoag LLP

execs got subadvisory agreements without shareholder approval, collar contracts with insiders and an unregistered token sale in the latest edition of action-packed no-actions: law360.com/articles/11587…

Treasury wants a national repository of beneficial ownership information, and FinCEN is poised to house it law360.com/compliance/art…

Steve Miller, the restructuring expert and veteran brought on last year as Purdue’s chairman, says he’s “never encountered a situation as challenging or important to society than the one I now face as chairman of Purdue Pharma.” wsj.com/articles/litig…

Treasury official Heath Tarbert has been confirmed to lead the CFTC. Chairman @giancarloCFTC will be remembered for strong views on swaps rules, ushering the CFTC thru repeated funding cuts, strengthening US relationships with European derivatives regulators and creating LabCFTC

#RegBI

State action is coming on broker-dealer fiduciaries. In #RegBI today, the SEC deferred the preemption question to the courts law360.com/articles/11663…

compliance is having a moment at OFAC law360.com/articles/11640…

Precidian has been working toward these no-action letters for 10 years. The SEC did not disappoint: “We are not persuaded that the operation of the ETFs as provided for in the application would involve unlawful trading on material nonpublic information." law360.com/articles/11646…

OFAC chose not to sue Western Union, instead commending the bank for having a global sanctions compliance program “that seemed to be effective except in this instance.” law360.com/articles/11671…

Lengthy decision interprets U.S. law on equity crowdfunding portals for the first time. Only on Law360: law360.com/articles/11675…

“There is some urgency,” Mass Secretary of State said. “I think there’s a void being left here and it has to be filled.” Top securities watchdog in Massachusetts isn't buying industry's legal arguments, pursues higher standards for finance pros. Only on Law360: law360.com/articles/11705…

A great article by Alison Noon McMahon via Law360 : Chatting With The #CCO The Kraft Heinz Company Jennifer Hogan bit.ly/2XQ4crX

FINRA encourages firms to self-report business in #cryptocurrencies, virtual coins and tokens—even if they don't believe those assets are securities. Firms have 12 mos. to disclose their activities related to digital assets. Alison Noon McMahon reports. law360.com/securities/art… #tokensale

I should be way more worried about this than I am. Can’t wait to root for Melo