The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 21: "Interview with Drago Kos of the OECD Working Group on Bribery"
After taking a brief hiatus since the 2024 Fall National Meeting, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Third-Party Data and Models (H) Working Group began shaping its focus. Based on a regulatory survey of...more
President Trump's "Working Group on Digital Asset Markets" recently released a report with a strategic roadmap to advance American leadership in digital financial technology....more
The report reflects collaboration across federal agencies and aims to establish US leadership in digital assets through forward-thinking policy and a clear regulatory framework....more
On August 7, 2025, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Annuity Suitability (A) Working Group issued draft safe harbor regulatory guidance with a comment period that ends on September 22, 2025. The draft...more
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they are forming the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group to further combat healthcare fraud—an...more
On February 12, 2025, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky) and Vice Chair John Joyce (R-Pa) announced the formation of 12-member working group tasked with developing comprehensive data privacy...more
The insurance industry embraced the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence in 2024 and will continue to do so in 2025. According to the surveys conducted by the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Working Group of...more
Trump Administration AI and Crypto Special Advisor David Sacks focused on stablecoin legislation and a potential crypto regulatory framework during a press conference on February 4. Sacks led the conference and was followed...more
The Connecticut General Assembly passed Public Act 20-09 in the fall of 2020 with the promise that the Connecticut Transfer Act would be abolished in favor of a released-based, rather than a transaction-based, remediation...more
The Circular Action Alliance (“CAA”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is expected to be selected as California’s new producer responsibility organization (“PRO”) under the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Privacy Working Group has been feverishly shuffling and re-dealing its new privacy model, but its luck may be running out....more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in today’s corporate lexicon. And while much has been said, and written, about AI, the question still remains: what, exactly, is AI? Or, more aptly for this discussion, what...more
Welcome back to Akin Intelligence: Hot AI Summer Edition! This month’s newsletter reflects the ongoing and increasing global activity around artificial intelligence (AI), including more proposed AI legislation and court...more
On June 21, 2023, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to launch his SAFE Innovation Framework, a comprehensive approach to address challenges associated with...more
On February 3, the Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry, announced the establishment of a nine-person Republican ESG Working Group to “combat the threat to our capital markets posed by those on the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the conclusion of an internal working group that cannabidiol (CBD) will require a new regulatory pathway. The FDA explicitly denied three citizen petitions urging the...more
On June 8, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) released its Guidance on the Issuance of U.S. Dollar-Backed Stablecoins meant to set foundational criteria for USD-backed stablecoins issued by...more
During the past six months, the US Treasury, the US banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have pursued several regulatory or enforcement initiatives...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published a Request for Public Comments regarding the newly formed Export Control Working Group of the U.S.-European Union (EU) Trade and...more
The EU-US Insurance Dialogue Project (“Project”) began in early 2012 as an initiative by the European Commission, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) of the...more
On August 31, 2021, a federal district court in Missouri v. Biden, 4:21-cv-00287, 2021 WL 3885590 (E.D. Mo. 2021), dismissed a suit brought by the State of Missouri and 12 other states, challenging President Biden's Executive...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: Hong Kong: FSTB publishes consultation conclusions on virtual asset services providers licensing regime Europe: European Commission publishes proposal for Regulation...more
US-UK financial regulatory working group joint statement - HM Treasury has published a joint statement by the US-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group following its fourth meeting, which was held virtually on 20 May 2021....more
On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act of 2021 (the “Act”). The Act was initially introduced in March with an overarching aim to clarify the roles of the...more
This Holland & Knight alert is the first of several status updates on environmental justice (EJ) in the Biden Administration. It identifies early actions of the administration that are not only significant in their own right...more