31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 21 - Managing Third Parties
AI Today in 5: January 21, 2026, The 9 AI Risks Edition
Great Women in Compliance: Don’t Freak Out: Compliance from a Prosecutor-Defense Lens
Compliance into the Weeds: Addressing Retaliation Against Compliance Officers: Strategies & Insights
Daily Compliance News: January 21, 2026, The Excellence in Compliance Awards Edition
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 20 - Third Party Risk Management Process
AI Today in 5: January 20, 2026, The Extortion Edition
Innovation in Compliance: Transforming from Hierarchy to High Performance: Governance and AI in 2026
Daily Compliance News: January 20, 2026, The First We Kill All the Lawyers Edition
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 19 - Evaluating the Risk Management Process
FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating Corporate Ethics and Compliance Trends in 2026 with Mike Volkov, Part 2
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 18 - Risk Assessments
Sunday Book Review: January 18, 2026, The Top Books on Innovation ’26 Edition
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 17 - Podcasting for Compliance
31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program: Day 16 - Effective and Tailored Compliance Training
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 68 - The Corruption is Free Speech Edition
AI Today in 5: January 16, 2026, The More Chatbots in Recruiting Edition
Daily Compliance News: January 16, 2026, The Another Basketball Point-Shaving Scandal Edition
31 Days to Effective Compliance Program: Day 15 - Monitoring and Improving Internal Controls
AI Today in 5: January 15, 2026, The AI for IA Edition
Recent U.S. policy actions have opened a narrow but actionable pathway for compliant engagement with Venezuela. Venezuela is re-emerging as one of the few genuine frontier markets with meaningful scale in energy, technology,...more
As life sciences companies expand internationally, regulatory readiness must evolve into a strategic capability that supports global business planning and innovation....more
Guess who’s back. Back again. Quantum’s back. Tell your friends. For the third time in three years, the duo of Sen. Todd Young [R-IN] and Sen. Dick Durbin [D-IL] have introduced a bill to reauthorize federal funding in the...more
The Justice Department knows how to use the False Claims Act — it is the primary tool against fraudsters in the healthcare industry, and going back even further, it was used against the defense industry in the 1980s and...more
Recent years have featured an increasing number of civil actions against corporations asserting claims under the federal Antiterrorism Act of 1990 (ATA), as amended by the 2016 Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act...more
The global M&A environment is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by evolving regulatory approaches, heightened geopolitical risk, and sector-specific scrutiny. Below, we highlight several critical trends likely to shape...more
Trademark lawyers eventually learn a hard truth: brands often do not die; instead, they drift. Sometimes they drift quietly into nostalgia. Sometimes they drift into the hands of the entrepreneurial and well-advised. Other...more
Ransomware attacks continue to evolve in sophistication, disrupting operations and commanding the urgent attention of regulators, law enforcement and government agencies....more
Since the creation of the UK’s autonomous sanctions regime post-Brexit, UK sanctions designations have been detailed in two lists: The UK Sanctions List, published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office....more
On 15 January 2026, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published its supervisory priorities for 2026, outlining in letters its sector-specific priorities for the coming year to all banks, building societies (a form...more
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Exchange) has taken a number of initiatives to enhance its attractiveness as a global offering and listing jurisdiction....more
Markets have continued to observe the rapid growth of fiat-backed stablecoins, with the U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin market reaching $225 billion and commentators estimating that number could reach up to $750 billion...more
Die Ankündigung einer europäischen Rechtsform („EU Inc.“) ist nicht nur ein Meilenstein im Gesellschaftsrecht, sondern auch ein starkes Signal für das Finanzdienstleistungs- und FinTech-Ökosystem....more
The U.S. government contracts market is the largest and most sophisticated public procurement system in the world, with annual spending exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars across defense, civilian agencies,...more
The global slowdown in recent years of sales processes and initial public offerings (IPOs) has delayed exits for many private equity (PE) sponsors, causing mounting pressure from investors to return capital....more
On December 18, 2025, the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act (the Act) was enacted as part of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. Effective March 18, 2026, the Act eliminates an exemption from the reporting...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the launch of a two-day stablecoin tech-sprint. The sprint, taking place on 4-5 March, will explore the use cases for stablecoins in domestic and international payments,...more
Construction arbitration—particularly in cross-border disputes—can present timing and procedural challenges that require careful planning and active management. For in-house counsel and practitioners, the goal isn’t to wish...more
On January 15, 2026, the US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA) posted the applications it received during the second round of the Section 232 automotive parts tariff inclusions process for public...more
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) establishes mandatory cybersecurity requirements for most hardware and software products made available on the EU market. While the CRA's date of full application (11 December 2027) is...more
Scrutiny of European Union's dependence on non-European cloud services is intensifying amid geopolitical tensions and rising cyber risk. U.S. hyperscalers control more than 70% of the EU cloud market, while European...more
Outsourcing models are entering a more complex and strategic phase as companies accelerate digital transformation, embed artificial intelligence into core business processes, and reassess global delivery strategies amid...more
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and the UK’s Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority (together, the UK Regulators) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...more
Welcome to this month’s issue of The BR International Trade Report, Blank Rome’s monthly digital newsletter highlighting international trade, cross-border investment, and geopolitical risk issues impacting businesses...more
On 8 January 2026, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it will return £400,000 to nine victims of a global email fraud dating back more than two decades. The move, achieved through a civil recovery order under the...more