California Corporate & Securities Law

Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation joined with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Securities Enforcement Branch in filing suit in U.S. District...

Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation published a 74-page report on its oversight and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank.  As explained in this earlier post, the bank was a state chartered bank but the DFPI was not...

In honor of Earth Day, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation is promoting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing on its website: "Embracing Sustainable Investment Practices with ESG Investing". According to...

State Senator Nancy Skinner recently rewrote SB 54 to require "institutional investors" to submit annually to the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation reports disclosing the following:

The closure of Silicon Valley Bank has understandably attracted a lot of attention. There are, however, other ways to lose money when banking. The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation recently issued the consumer alert, which I...

Silicon Valley Bank was chartered by the State of California and was subject to the supervision of the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation. The DFPI was not the bank's regulator. The bank had adopted a bank holding company...

Yesterday's post noted that an administrative decision had not been listed as a "precedent decision".  Today's post will delve into the role of precedential and nonprecedential agency decisions.

Last week, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation announced that it has launched a "Crypto Scam Tracker".  According to the DFPI, the Crypto Scam Tracker is "a database that is searchable by company name, scam type, or...

The internet facilitates crime in the same way it facilitates legitimate business - it lowers transaction costs. With the internet, a fraudster can steal someone's identity and then use that purloined identity to reach thousands of potential victims...