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Hong Kong released GenAI Technical and Application Guideline

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On 15 April 2025, the Digital Policy Office (DPO) of the Hong Kong Government published the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline (Guideline), seeking to encourage stakeholders in...more

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DOL Softens Bite on Independent Contractor Test

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The DOL announced that it will not enforce the 2024 independent contractor rule. The pre-2024 multi-factor test will be used for FLSA worker classification disputes....more

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Federal Banking Regulators Adopt a Permissive Stance on Cryptocurrency

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The federal banking regulators have each recently adopted a more permissive approach to the regulation of cryptocurrency activities within the banking sector. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

All American AI: New OMB Memos Set Priorities for Federal AI Use and Acquisition

On April 3, 2025, OMB released two new memorandums on artificial intelligence (“AI”) as directed by Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. (As a reminder, President Trump...more

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New Jersey's Attorney General and Division on Civil Rights Starts 2025 With Guidance on AI Use in Hiring

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On 9 January 2025, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) announced the launch of a Civil Rights and Technology Initiative (the Initiative) “to address the risks of...more

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IRS Announces HSA and HDHP Limits for 2026

The Internal Revenue Service has released Rev. Proc. 2025-19 announcing the inflation-adjusted limits for high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) in 2026.  The updated 2026 limits are as...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

The Desk: May Edition

On April 17, 2025, as previewed in the Division of Enforcement’s (“DoE”) February 25, 2025, “Advisory on Self-Reporting, Cooperation, and Remediation”, the Staff of the Market Participants Division (“MPD”) laid the remaining...more

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FCA announces changes to simplify supervisory communications

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced it will no longer be issuing and publishing portfolio letters from 30 April. Instead, these will be replaced with a small number of market reports. The market reports...more

Porter Hedges LLP

DOJ Issues Data Security Program Compliance Guide

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On April 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division (NSD) issued a Compliance Guide to provide additional information to assist companies and individuals in complying with the NSD’s Data Security...more

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France & UK Continue Corporate Criminal Enforcement: SFO Issues New Corporate Guidance

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Foreign regulators continue to intensify their efforts to combat bribery and corruption. France’s Anti-Corruption Agency (L’Agence française anticorruption or AFA) recently published its year-in-review for 2024, which showed...more

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100 Days In: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday®

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This week, we’re bringing you a special episode on the first 100 days of the Trump administration, in which we highlight sweeping policy shifts, battles at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); revisions to diversity,...more

Smart & Biggar

Health Canada publishes Guide to the precision regulating authorities under the Food and Drugs Act

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In March 2025,  Health Canada published a Guide to the precision regulating authorities under the Food and Drugs Act. The Guide sets out the principles, policies, considerations and standards that Health Canada should follow...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Fannie Mae Updates Preferred Equity Guidelines: What You Need to Know

Fannie Mae published its Preferred Equity Guide Update (25-06) and its Preferred Equity Checklist (Form 6441) in mid-April. Although unpublished iterations have been circulating for the past two years, lenders and law firms...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CFTC Advisory Outlines Materiality Criteria for Enforcement Referrals

On April 17, 2025, three operating divisions (the “Operating Divisions”) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the Division of Enforcement (“DOE”) provided guidance in CFTC Letter 25-13 (the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

OMB issues guidance for implementing executive order on agency accountability

On April 17, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum providing guidance for historically independent regulatory agencies to comply with regulatory provisions in Executive Order (EO) 14215. The EO “seeks...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Provides Technical Support for Companies Submitting New Chemical Data

On April 25, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of new resources intended to help companies with the requirements described in EPA’s December 2024 final rule governing the review...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Flurry of Activity from FDA in the First Four Months of 2025

It is an understatement to say the last four months have been a whirlwind. Cabinet confirmations, executive orders, policy changes, and more, including some developments that impact (or that will impact) the food industry...more

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The “Prestige”: DoD Unveils NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3, Organizationally Defined Parameters

On April 15, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD) released official guidance on Organizationally Defined Parameters (ODPs) appearing in the newly published NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3. At the same time, the DoD reaffirmed...more

BakerHostetler

CFTC Provides Clarifying Guidance on Material Violations Regarding Self-Reporting, Cooperation, and Remediation System

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As we previously reported, in February, the CFTC’s DOE issued an enforcement advisory (the DOE Advisory) to provide guidance to market participants on how the DOE will evaluate a company’s or an individual’s conduct in the...more

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EU Commission Clarifies Definition of AI Systems

The European Commission published guidelines that clarify the definition of AI systems under the AI Act, analyzing each component of the definition of AI system, providing examples and specifying which systems should be...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

OCC, FDIC eliminating ‘reputational risk’ from supervision, examinations

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The OCC has removed “reputational risk” from its handbooks and guidance and the FDIC is moving to do the same. ...more

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CFTC Operating and Enforcement Divisions Issue Advisory on Referrals to Enforcement Division

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On April 17, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's ("CFTC") operating divisions ("Divisions") provided guidance in an advisory on the criteria they will use when determining whether to refer self-reported...more

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CFTC Staff Issue Advisory on Criteria for Referrals to the Division of Enforcement

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The staff of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) on April 17, 2025 issued an advisory outlining the criteria the agency’s Market Participants Division, Division of Clearing and Risk, and Division...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Attention SNFs: Enhanced 855A Disclosure Requirement Deadline Extended to August 1, 2025

This article is an update to a December 2024 client alert. On April 17, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") extended the revalidation deadline for its 855A skilled nursing facility...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Pension Plan Notice Requirements Change Before Deadline

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The Department of Labor (DOL) issued guidance earlier this month that will affect defined benefit plans’ annual funding notices. The annual funding notice requirements were amended by SECURE 2.0 and are effective for plan...more

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