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Fox on Podcasting: Mastering Business Podcasting at The Podcasting for Business Conference
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Hot Topics in International Trade 2024 Presidential Election and Trade with BLG Senior Associate Attorney Kerry Wang
The Corruption Files: How One Person Brought Down Barings Bank
Daily Compliance News: October 31, 2024 – The Happy Halloween Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Managing New Risks – Lessons from The Creature from The Black Lagoon
Compliance into the Weeds: Leadership Lessons from The Washington Post’s Non-Endorsement
Great Women in Compliance: Mary Inman and Jane Norberg on Current Developments in Whistleblower Laws and Practice
Daily Compliance News: October 30, 2024 – The Power of Podcasting Edition
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Riskology by Infortal: Episode 35 – Riskology in London with BABL AI
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: How to Conduct an Internal Compliance Site Visit and Review
Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance Lessons from Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein
Adventures in Compliance: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Investigative Lessons from The Adventure of The Mazarin Stone
FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating Global Compliance and Risk – Lessons from The Pager Attacks
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The Justice Department’s global settlement included a significant False Claims Act resolution, resulting in a second deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) for a three-year term. A criminal information was filed in the...more
On October 8, 2024, the EU Council adopted the Listing Act – a regulation amending the Prospectus Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 – which was first proposed in December 2022 and then subjected to several rounds of negotiations....more
The European Patent Office ("EPO") currently requires applicants to adapt descriptions to allowable claims. This practice is risky, expensive, and not clearly grounded in the law....more
The "Second Resolution of Amendments to the International Trade Rules for 2024 and to Annexes 1, 2, 5, and 24" was published on Oct. 14, 2024, in the Federal Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación), introducing...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) on October 21 that would prohibit or restrict the transfer of certain data of U.S. persons to China and other countries of...more
Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer in the role’s 800-year history, delivered Labour’s first budget in 14 years on the 30th October. We have set out below a brief summary of some of the tax measures...more
Virtual and in-person attendees at the upcoming ICANN81 Annual General Meeting in Istanbul, Türkiye can look forward to a busy and engaging event from Nov. 9-14. ...more
We are seeing an increasing number of enquiries from lenders and their advisors in respect of the practicalities of enforcement by receivers of English security granted by overseas entities. Real estate property transactions...more
The court held that the Executive Branch's decision to criminally prosecute a foreign state-owned entity for commercial activity is entitled to deference and thus strips the entity's immunity under common law....more
The Financial Stability Board has published a report on depositor behaviour and interest rate and liquidity risks in the financial system. The report draws on lessons from the March 2023 banking turmoil which saw the collapse...more
Raytheon’s comprehensive settlement included FCPA violations and failures to make required disclosures to the Defense Department concerning fees and commissions. This portion of the settlement was filed in the Eastern...more
The European Commission has adopted the following legislation supplementing the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act: (i) Commission Delegated Regulation containing Regulatory Technical Standards specifying the content and...more
Jersey is a well-established jurisdiction of choice for issuing debt securities in international finance transactions. Recently, we have seen a steady increase in interest in Jersey debt securities issuers either for a...more
On October 22, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit determined that common-law foreign sovereign immunity does not protect Halkbank, a commercial bank, majority-owned by Turkey, from criminal prosecution for...more
The US antitrust regulators continued to aggressively challenge transactions and associated Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) violations during the third quarter of 2024. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) litigated two merger...more
The International Entrepreneur Rule (“IER”) is a mechanism enacted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) in 2017 to help encourage noncitizen investors and entrepreneurs to continue their business ventures in...more
Reports are that there over 50 million people in the world living in modern slavery conditions, and, of those, 60% work in forced labor in the private economy. Ensuring that your organization isn’t sourcing from suppliers who...more
October 31, 2024- Members of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services sent a letter to federal banking regulators at the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Federal...more
The draft U.K. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum. The Order makes changes to the U.K. Emissions Trading Scheme, including the...more
Despite the summer doldrums, cartel enforcers around the world had several notable enforcement actions and, perhaps more importantly, signaled a busy fall and winter. In the United States, the Department of Justice’s...more
Through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), the U.S. Government has long had the authority to review inbound investment. The Final Rule formalizes the U.S. Government’s authority to regulate...more
The Financial Stability Board has published a letter sent to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors providing an update on various workstreams, including on cyber and operational resilience...more
The Critical Benchmarks Regulations 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum. The Regulations come into force on November 13, 2024. The instrument specifies two benchmarks, the WMR Closing Spot Rates...more
The EDPB released guidance last month to help companies understand their obligations when using newer tracking tools. These include pixels, URL tracking, IP-tracking, and the like. First, some background: an EU law that...more
What happens when two top compliance commentators get together? They talk compliance, of course. Join Tom Fox and Kristy Grant-Hart in 2 Gurus Talk Compliance as they discuss the latest compliance issues in this week’s...more