Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. Today, we look at the SEC’s likely reinstatement of an Obama-era policy on settlements and DOJ’s efforts to confront redlining, which still limits equal access to credit for communities of color. Thanks for reading, and please get in touch with tips and feedback. Contact me at [email protected] and @AGoudsward on Twitter.

An Obama-era SEC Policy is Dusted Off Under Biden

What’s old is new again at the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Biden administration.