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During Tuesday’s subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, republican lawmakers questioned Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC) chair Mary Joe White on how a rule from the SEC to create stricter retail investment advice standards might be affected or operate in conjunction with a similar rule from the Department of Labor (DOL). The committee expressed concern about whether requiring compliance of similar rules from separate agencies might cause confusion for investment firms.

Isis can now ad white collar crime to its growing list of illicit sources of income. This combined with other elaborate schemes including oil smuggling, extortion, and ransom money, is used to play the currency market. 

Last month saw an agreement reached between the US department of commerce and the European commission, to update the terms of the previous Safe Harbor agreement. You can read about that more in our previous blog post here; EU – US Agreement reached in Safe Harbor Negotiations.

MyComplianceOffice (MCO), the branded SaaS solution of TerraNua, today announced an associate membership to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

Everyone knows that conferences provide ample opportunity for compliance practitioners to attend informative panels and hear valuable discussions on regulatory developments. It’s also a time to create and develop meaningful contacts for your career. With this goal in mind, we at MCO have updated our 2016 list to our seven best practices for 2017. We hope this helps you to get the most out of your next conference or chance to network.