Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our briefing on compliance, enforcement and government affairs. The Justice Department has been promoting voluntary self-disclosure of white-collar misconduct for months now, but in a new report, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher notes that the benefits for financial institutions are “neither easy to anticipate nor to quantify.” Also: Thanks to the Supreme Court, the Securities and Exchange Commission is running into more roadblocks in its enforcement efforts.

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