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SEC Settlement Suggests the Agency’s Attempt to Regulate Cybersecurity Controls

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Does the R.R. Donnelley settlement mean heightened Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) involvement in regulating public companies’ cybersecurity policies and practices? Our Securities Litigation, Privacy, Cyber & Data...more

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CFPB Warns Consumers to Be Cautious of High-Yield Savings Accounts with FinTech Companies: Perhaps a New Focus for the CFPB

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The CFPB is shifting its focus to FinTech and nonbank payment systems, circling back to past frontiers. This recent warning echoes the sentiment of former CFPB’s Director, Richard Cordray, focusing heavily on FinTechs and...more

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Proxy Advisory Firms Issue 2023 Voting Guidelines

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Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") and Glass Lewis & Co. LLC ("Glass Lewis"), the two major proxy advisory firms, recently issued their updated proxy voting guidelines for the 2023 proxy season. These policy updates...more

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Key Considerations for the 2022 Annual Reporting and Proxy Season

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This memorandum outlines key considerations for U.S. public companies in preparation for the 2022 annual reporting and proxy season.   ▪️ Part I of this memo, which was published in January 2022, describes key...more

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ISS and Glass Lewis Issue 2022 Updates: Top Six Key Policy Changes and Take-Aways

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In the past few weeks, both major proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") and Glass Lewis & Co. LLC ("Glass Lewis"), have issued their updated proxy voting guidelines for the 2022 proxy season. These...more

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New Sustainability Standards Board to Develop Global Sustainability Disclosure Standards

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The global standardization of ESG and, more broadly, sustainability related disclosure requirements may arrive sooner than anyone could have expected. A recent Financial Times article entitled “New Body to Oversee Global...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Regulatory Review, Reformatted

As 2021 runs in search of what’s new, we realize that the pandemic disruption has continued through 2021. The NMLS Ombudsman Meeting was held virtually and the upcoming American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators...more

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Europe Seeks to Tame Artificial Intelligence with the World’s First Comprehensive Regulation

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In what could be a harbinger of the future regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States, the European Commission published its recent proposal for regulation of AI systems. The proposal is part of the...more

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SEC Tightens Regulations on Proxy Advisory Firms

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 22, 2020, adopted amendments tightening regulation of proxy voting advice from proxy advisory firms (Release No. 34-89372). The final rule implements additional regulations...more

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CFPB’s Ombudsman’s Office issues fifth annual report

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The CFPB’s Ombudsman’s Office has issued its fifth annual report covering the Office’s activities during fiscal year 2016 (October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016).  The role of the Ombudsman’s Office is to assist in the...more

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Blog: Another Study Shows Increase In Enhanced Disclosures Regarding The Audit Committee

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The Center for Audit Quality and Audit Analytics have jointly released their second-year analysis, Audit Committee Transparency Barometer. The analysis, which studied proxy statements of companies in the S&P Composite 1500,...more

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