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News & Analysis as of May 20, 2013

Financial Services Legislative and Regulatory Update -- April 29‚ 2013

by Abby Matousek, Jason M. Rosenstock | Mintz Levin - Public Finance on 5/1/2013

In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; and Executive Branch. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - The past week could be best described by one word. Chaos. In the House, a scheduled...more

EU Data Protection Regulation: Looming closer . . .

by Susan Foster | Mintz Levin - Privacy & Security on 4/22/2013

(LONDON) The draft of the new Data Protection Regulation, the first EU privacy law with highly serious teeth in the form of fines based on global turnover, continues to wend its way through various committees of the European...more

Buchheit: Cyprus Could Need a Second Bailout [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 3/28/2013

Mar. 28 (Bloomberg Law) -- The sovereign debt crisis in Cyprus marks the fifth European nation to need a bailout in recent memory, but this crisis is unique because European Union regulators are taking the unprecedented step...more

Financial Services Legislative And Regulatory Update -- June 25, 2012

by Mintz Levin - Public Finance on 7/3/2012

In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; International; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week Although the biggest story had to be the Supreme Court?s...more

Greece's Lawyer: EU Bailout Will Cost Trillion Euros & Cyprus Is Next [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 6/21/2012

June 21 (Bloomberg Law) -- Lee Buchheit, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP who represented Greece in its debt restructuring, predicts the Eurozone countries will have to double to 1 trillion Euros the money...more

THE CFPB: New Director, New Powers, New Threats - Political And Judicial

by Patton Boggs LLP on 2/6/2012

Last week, the Senate held its first hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) following President Obama’s controversial recess appointment of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to lead...more

Experts Predict Passage of the Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2010: What Does This Law Mean to U.S. Importers...

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 7/23/2010

One of the more controversial bills brewing in Congress is the Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2010. Although a variation of this bill was introduced in the Senate Finance Committee last year, it received...more

Cadmium Products Now in Crosshairs of Federal and State Legislators

by Duane Morris LLP on 4/12/2010

With lead banned in children's products by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), many American politicians, regulators and consumer groups are now calling for a ban on cadmium, another toxic metal that...more