On September 24, 2020, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Commissioner Dan Berkovitz discussed the agency’s Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) enforcement program in detail, signaling the CFTC’s commitment to ensuring that financial institutions and other CFTC registrants comply with applicable AML regulations.

[1] Commissioner Berkovitz’s remarks accord with the priorities of several other regulators that have recently highlighted the significance of compliance with AML obligations.

Most importantly, think about your readers and their needs. Ask questions about who wants to read about the topics you want to cover: What are their professional titles? What do they need to know about these topics? What content are they most likely to share on their social media accounts?

You may want to focus your posts on news and developments affecting specific locations. If a topic doesn’t affect readers in that location, leave it out. Which topics do you know better than anyone else? Is there a topic where you’d like to establish yourself as a subject-matter expert?

Which topics affect your preferred industry? Who are your main competitors? What are they doing? How are you different?

List out the topics you want to cover on your blog. Then group those topics together under four or five larger categories. If a topic doesn’t fit under one of those categories, leave it out. Blogs that cover too many topics will quickly lose focus.

These blogs focus on specific industries or geographic areas: Broadcast Law Blog, Legal Flight Deck, Money Laundering Watch, Fracking Insider, Tobacco Law Blog, Minnesota Family Law Blog.