To meet our regulatory obligations, we need to verify all of our merchants.

Here in CA, the challenges to development from a regulatory perspective make development undesirable for business people who take risks in exchange for profit. 

Forming a legal entity for your business will have extra filing fees along with the hassle of additional regulatory filings, but those cons are significantly outweighed by the benefits of limited liability.

If you are selling securities, you must either "register" the securities with a regulatory agency (SEC or state securities regulators) or qualify for an exemption from registration. 

I'm sure you can check the rules on the Department of Real Estate site, which is called the Licensing and Regulatory Affairs in MI.

Custodians do exactly the same thing but with the added regulatory and financial scrutiny.

I'm hearing from more and more people who have setup 401k plans with companies that do not offer ongoing support and some don't even support the documents they provided (that is, keep the plan compliant with ongoing document updates as needed for regulatory amendments, no less discretionary amendments).

You're directing all this from memory and by using the notes on strips along with regulatory flight rules.

I'll get ahold of you for my "regulatory" mixer after you come back, and see who you might be able to bring from the FRB.

As you'll see in the article, they've proposed 3 regulatory options, with the strictest of the 3 (21 day minimum stay) being considered as incredibly unlikely by most of the people I've spoken to who are following this closely.I couldn't agree more that NIMBYs pose a serious threat to STRs, but that's true anywhere.