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Supreme Court: Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protections Apply Only to SEC Complaints
In Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Summers, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the anti-retaliation provisions in Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act apply only to whistleblowing of violations of the securities laws to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and not to internal whistleblowing to company personnel. The SEC thus chose the narrower... Read more »
EU General Data Protection Regulation To Go Into Force
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) is scheduled to go into force on May 25, 2018. The GDPR replaces existing data protection laws throughout the EU, and tightens the requirements that apply to businesses that collect and use personal data. While a full understanding of the GDPR is beyond the scope of this... Read more »
New FCPA Enforcement Policy
On November 29, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) issued an update to its U.S. Attorney’s Manual to adopt a new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Corporate Enforcement Policy (the “Policy”). Under the Policy, credit will be given to certain self-reporting by companies (in the form of declination to prosecute or lower fines) or... Read more »
CFTC Issues Report on Virtual Currencies
On October 17, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commision’s (the “CFTC”) LabCFTC, the CFTC’s division launched this year to look at financial technology (“FinTech”), issued a press release and its first primer (in the form of an outline on slides) called “A CFTC Primer on Virtual Currencies” (the “Primer”). Perhaps the most important statement in the... Read more »