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Last summer, we described efforts of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and several states to protect workers from heat stress hazards. In July of this year, OSHA issued a notice for a proposed rule,...more
The government will enact the new legislation to bring issuers of fiat-referencing stablecoins into the regulatory perimeter. On 17 July 2024, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Hong Kong Monetary...more
Welcome to the new Two Minute Weekly. Following requests from readers, we are changing the format of our employment law newsletter. It will now be weekly and will feature as it did before news items and new cases....more
Non-EU or non-MiCA compliant entities that want to offer or provide crypto-asset services to clients in the EU must be aware of the newly drafted guidelines from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The...more
The much anticipated response to the Consultation initiated by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) last September has finally arrived (read our earlier briefing here). Last Friday, the CAC ended months of speculation...more
On March 22, 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) promulgated the final version of the Provisions on the Promotion and Regulation of Cross-Border Data Flows (the “Final Provisions”), bringing to conclusion the...more
As we have previously reported, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) announced that it will launch the first phase of consultations on new guidelines. On November 10, 2023, the PMPRB published its Scoping Paper...more
The FCA and the PRA have published their long-awaited consultations which aim to formalise how firms approach diversity and inclusion. On 25 September 2023, the FCA and the PRA published separate but related consultation...more
The First Tier Tribunal (FTT) has allowed a landlord to dispense with the statutory requirement to consult with leaseholders prior to carrying out substantial fire safety works to a multi-storey residential building....more
The UK government confirmed on 30 November 2022 that there will be changes to the UK’s cybersecurity regulations in response to a public consultation launched earlier this year. This follows recent updates relating to the...more
The UK government set out its detailed proposals for data protection reform on 18 July 2022 in the form of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Compared with some of the radical ideas in the 2021 public...more
In January 2017, the UK Government issued a consultation paper calling for evidence on reforming corporate criminal liability for economic crime. Nearly four years later, on 3 November 2020, the Government’s response was...more
New regulatory requirements, including registration and customer disclosure requirements, apply to regulated and unregulated persons carrying on relevant cryptoasset business. On 20 December 2019, the UK government published...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a consultation on its proposed guidelines setting out the criteria that Credit Ratings Agencies should have in place to demonstrate that their internal control...more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently issued guidance on what it looks for when requiring national banks and federal thrifts in enforcement orders to engage third-party consultants (3PCs). Bulletin...more
The OCC issued guidance (the “Guidance,” OCC Bulletin 2013-33) that establishes standards that the OCC will use when it requires national banks, federal savings associations or federal branches or agencies (collectively,...more
On November 12, OCC published standards governing the use of independent consultants in enforcement actions involving significant violations of law. The standards describe the criteria the OCC will use in determining whether...more
The above lyrics are the closing stanza to the song “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. I thought about the advice for the cowboy to change his ways to save his soul from Hell when I read in both the Financial Times (FT) and the Wall...more
Today I finalize my review of the Total SA (Total) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action....more