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Maintaining Information Preservation and Management Vigilance in an Age of Apparent Reduced Law Enforcement

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Corporate legal departments are busy. They face new privacy regulations, ever-shifting trade policies, developments in artificial intelligence, and an unending stream of breaking news. It is difficult to keep up, and lately,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition

Welcome to this edition of the award-winning Everything Compliance. In this episode, the quartet of Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong, Karen Moore, and Karen Woody is hosted by Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist. • Karen Moore...more

King & Spalding

Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Enforcement in the U.S., UK, and Europe post-FCPA Pause

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We have previously written about the impact of the pause in enforcement of the FCPA implemented by the Trump Administration on non-American companies.1 Although the 180-day review period the Executive Order provided to the...more

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Pausing Bribery Prosecutions: What Companies Need to Know

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Last week President Trump signed an Executive Order pausing enforcement of the nation’s most robust anti-bribery statute, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”). The EO seeks a complete overhaul of the FCPA enforcement...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - February 2025 #2

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Major Crypto Exchanges Launch New Products, Obtain Foreign Licenses - According to a recent company blog post, a major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange has launched a new staking product that will allow clients residing in...more

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Whistleblowing: ensure programs are fit for 2025

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Whistleblowing has become an increasingly critical aspect of corporate governance and compliance, especially for multinational companies operating across diverse legal and regulatory landscapes. We see increased efforts by...more

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Anticorruption and FCPA Enforcement: Takeaways and Lessons Heading into 2025

This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for November 2024

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Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for October 2024

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Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for September 2024

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Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

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Incentivising Whistleblowers: What Does the Future Hold in the UK and the US for Whistleblower Protection and Incentivisation?

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In the UK, it has not historically been part of the fabric of our legal and regulatory system to pay whistleblowers who provide evidence to authorities who are investigating potential breaches of law or regulation....more

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Rewarding Whistleblowers Will Only be Effective as Part of a Wider Package of Reforms

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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Nick Ephgrave has consistently touted the benefits of offering financial rewards to whistleblowers. With the FCA also considering its position on financial incentivisation, and a supportive...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - August 2024

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New Crypto Products Announced, Stablecoin and BTC Data Published - According to a recent press release, OpenEden, a tokenization platform, announced that it is bringing tokenized U.S. Treasury bills to the XRP ledger....more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Braumiller-Law-Group - June 2024 Newletter

Recently, President Biden signed a foreign military support bill (H.R. 815) into law, which also encompassed the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act (the Act), a legislative proposal introduced in the House containing...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Cross-Border Implications of the FCA’s Consultation Paper on Publishing Information About the Opening and Progress of...

Last month, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it is considering new procedures under which it would publicly identify firms that are under investigation as soon as the investigation has been...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for February 2024

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

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UK SFO wants to pay whistleblowers: is this is a good idea?

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Nick Ephgrave QPM was appointed as Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) back in September 2023. In his first speech he said he wants to reward whistleblowers. We take a look at the pros and cons of incentivising...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for December 2023

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

BakerHostetler

Swiss Banks Launch Crypto Offerings; GAO Addresses SEC Crypto Bulletin; UK and Hong Kong Publish Crypto Guidance; DOJ and SEC...

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Swiss Banks Launch Tokenization Pilot, Crypto Custody and Trading Services - A recent press release announced a pilot by “SIX, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and six commercial banks” that seeks “to test, in a live...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for August 2023

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Summer 2023

Short sellers make their money by publishing information that attacks a company in order to drive down its share price. How can a company prepare? And what should it not do in the face of a short attack? We offer some tips in...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Daily Financial Regulation Update -- Thursday, July 27, 2023

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July 26, 2023- The Department of Justice, Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a joint compliance note focusing...more

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FCPA Digest - Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - June 2023

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In 2022, the DOJ and the SEC resolved a total of ten corporate enforcement actions under the FCPA, more than double the number in the previous year. While the average corporate penalties only slightly increased to $168...more

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CryptoLink - May 2023

Washington is in a period of closely divided government. The Democrats have the White House; the Republicans have a bare majority in the House; and Democrats have a bare majority in the Senate. In practice, this means policy...more

BakerHostetler

New Crypto Payment and Web3 Products Launch; UK Seeks Input on DeFi Taxation; OFAC Fines Crypto Exchange; SEC, DOJ, CFTC Continue...

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Multiple Financial Services Firms Announce New Crypto Products - A major U.S. financial services firm recently launched its Crypto Credential product, “a set of common standards and infrastructure that will help verify...more

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