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NYDFS Highlights Strategies to Combat AI Cybersecurity Risks

The increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the banking, insurance, and financial services industries has led the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS or Department) to publish an Industry Letter on...more

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Food and Beverage News and Trends - November 2024 #2

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. FDA seeks input on human food export certification program. Companies that...more

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New York issues extensive new pharmacy benefit manager regulations

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On November 27, 2024, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) will be releasing new regulations governing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Beginning with legislation in 2021, New York has been active in...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FDA Issues RFI on PFAS in Seafood

On November 19, 2024, FDA issued a request for information (RFI) on per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in seafood. Specifically, the agency is seeking scientific data and information from the seafood industry and other...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Investor Advisory Committee to meet on Mandatory Arbitration Clauses, Alternative Investments, and Finfluencers

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee (the “Committee”) will meet on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, in an open meeting, that will stream on the SEC’s website.  The Committee will first hear from...more

Troutman Pepper

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - December 2024

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

Snell & Wilmer

Recently Enacted California Assembly Bill 2424 and Its Impact on Non-Judicial Foreclosure Procedures

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The California legislature recently passed Assembly Bill 2424, which, as more fully explained below, will have a significant and imminent impact on the nonjudicial foreclosure process of residential real estate. Existing...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Crypto Update: UK Government Outlines Its Approach to Digital Asset Regulation

In her first comments since the July 2024 UK general election, Economic Secretary to the UK Treasury Tulip Siddiq MP delivered a speech at the Tokenisation Summit on 21 November 2024 that outlined the recently elected UK...more

A&O Shearman

U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal fines Pfizer and Flynn Pharma nearly GBP70 million for excessive and unfair pricing

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The U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has imposed its own fines on Pfizer and Flynn Pharma for abusing their dominant positions by charging excessive and unfair prices for phenytoin sodium, an anti-epilepsy drug, after...more

Fenwick & West LLP

California's New Digital Goods Law Targets Misleading Media Licenses

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Effective January 1, 2025, a new California consumer protection law will require sellers of digital goods to more clearly communicate whether consumers are purchasing unrestricted ownership to that digital good or merely...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

Read Before Signing - Important lessons from recent court rulings involving problematic contracts.

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IN THREE COURT DECISIONS IN THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, two themes emerged: reading the contract before you sign and understanding the law that applies. In the first case, a court needed to decide which of two contracts...more

A&O Shearman

Antitrust in focus - November 2024

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New U.S. merger control filing forms to take effect in February 2025 - Following publication in the Federal Register, the new Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification forms will become effective on February 10, 2025....more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Navigating big data ethics: Real-world challenges

There is no better real-world example of significant data ethics complexities than Facebook. The data privacy scandal that has emerged over the past few years is a unique educational tool for any compliance professional or...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

AI is here to stay?

Artificial intelligence or AI—yes, we are talking about it again. The explosion of AI in healthcare will only continue to grow. Statistics show that the total market value of AI in healthcare will expand to over $148 billion...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Structure of CPSC

On October 21, 2024, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the structure of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). As we explained in a previous blog post, under CPSC’s current structure, the president of...more

Shipkevich PLLC

[Webinar] Post-Election Analysis and Impact on the Debt Settlement Industry - December 10th, 1:00 pm EST

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Felix Shipkevich and Yvonne Bowser-Caballero of Shipkevich PLLC, with special guest Nicholas Kosmas, Chief Legal Officer of ClearOne Advantage LLC, will host a webinar to discuss a post-election overview of the regulatory...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Business Owners: Beware of Scams and Solicitations

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For years, federal trademark and patent application owners have been the target of scammers seeking payment for services that are neither required nor provided. Recently, however, it appears that scammers are finding new ways...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

GDPR Question: What Do You Do With a US Court Order?

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So you have a court order from a U.S. court seeking data? In the words of Shania Twain, “That don’t impress me much!” The European Data Protection Board recently issued an opinion on cross border transfers pursuant to Art 48...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

FTC’s “Fake Review” Portal is Live: How Businesses Can Remove Fake Reviews

Once reviews are identified, a company can take steps to remove them. Generally, reviews can be removed in one of three ways: reporting the review to the FTC, reporting the review to the hosting platform, and pursuing legal...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

CFPB Finalizes Open Banking Rule to Boost Competition, Protect Privacy, and Enhance Consumer Choice

On October 22, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its long-awaited Final Rule implementing Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act ("Final Rule") with the intention of giving consumers greater rights,...more

Bracewell LLP

Federal Register Notice on November 26, 2024, Establishes Date for Compliance Filings for FERC Elimination of Generator...

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On October 17, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued Order No. 904, finding on a generic basis that allowing transmission providers to charge customers for a generating facility’s provision of...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

AI, Cybersecurity, and Digital Infrastructure—Emerging Risks and Strategies for 2025

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Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and the exponential growth of data centers are combining to create new opportunities for cybercriminals that corporations need to be aware of and to plan to combat. As discussed in the...more

J.S. Held

The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: Scams and Frauds

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AI is technology that enables computers to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving skills, whereas deepfake is synthetic media that has been digitally manipulated to replace and mimic one person’s likeness. AI...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FTC Delivers $2 Million Reminder About the Mail Order Rule

On Monday, the FTC announced a court order requiring GOAT – an online marketplace for sneakers, apparel, and accessories – to pay more than $2 million for violating the Mail Order Rule, which requires companies to have...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

Challenge to the FTC's CARS Rule Is Ripe for the Fifth Circuit to Decide

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On October 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on the challenge by the National Automobile Dealers Association and the Texas Automobile Dealers Association ("Petitioners") to the...more

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