In the September edition of our Public Company Watch, we cover key issues impacting public companies, including updates regarding the most recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporate Law and the EU’s Corporate…
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/ Business Organizations, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Law
September 13, 2024 -
The General Counsel of the CFPB delivered a speech to the Poverty Law Conference addressing the variety of consumer protection laws that protect impoverished individuals and how innovation and financial…
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/ Finance & Banking
On September 4, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued an Enforcement Advisory on the importance of avoiding dark patterns. As we have previously written, dark patterns were first addressed in detail in…
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/ Business Torts, Consumer Protection, Privacy
September 11, 2024 -
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy, led by Chairman Andy Barr (KY-06), held a hearing entitled “Transparency in Global Governance.”…
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/ Finance & Banking
September 10, 2024 -
Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S Barr delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution on re-proposal of regulations to implement the Basel III Endgame…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
In order to reach its “net-zero” goals, the European Union is continuing to build out a regulatory framework focused on scaling up the investment into the manufacturing and development of “net-zero technologies”. The latest…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
September 9, 2024-
Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant Paul Munter made a statement at the 2024 AICPA & CIMA Conference on Banks & Savings Institutions…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has decided not to petition the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision to vacate a controversial package of…
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/ Administrative Law, Securities Law
On August 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri declared unconstitutional two anti-ESG disclosure rules issued by the Missouri Securities Division and applicable to broker-dealers and…
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/ Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
2024 has seen a significant amount of activity by state insurance regulators and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the “NAIC”) including the adoption of major revisions to the regimes governing investments by…
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/ Finance & Banking, Insurance
We continue to learn more about the courts’ perspective on claims under the California Information Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Last month, in Moody v. C2 Educational Systems Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Central District of…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
September 4, 2024-
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog post entitled “AI and the Labor Market: Will Firms Hire, Fire, or Retrain?”
September 4, 2024-
The Bank Policy Institute…
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/ Finance & Banking
September 3, 2024-
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu discussed the evolution of bank supervision during a presentation at the Joint European Banking Authority and European Central Bank International Conference…
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/ Finance & Banking
August 28, 2024-
Following its stress test earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Board announced final individual capital requirements for all large banks, effective on October 1…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
August 27, 2024 -
The Federal Reserve Board released the minutes from its recent meetings to review and determine the discount rates provided to depository institutions through the discount window…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
