All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 111
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Google probe a sign U.S. getting serious about breaking up Big Tech?
The DOJ has reportedly been laying the groundwork for a Google-focused antitrust investigation in what seems to be the latest signal regulators have the tech giants in their crosshairs.
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ArticleHeritage Pharmaceuticals admits to price fixing, antitrust violations
Heritage Pharmaceuticals, a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, was charged with conspiring with competitors to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers.
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Resourcee-Book: Riding California’s Wave of Regulatory Developments
California has not only been on the forefront of emerging technologies, it’s also been the most active state when it comes to regulating that new tech, especially when it comes to data privacy.
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World Bank debars French, Brazilian subsidiaries of Veolia Water
The World Bank has debarred two subsidiaries of Veolia Water Technologies for fraudulent and collusive practices during a bidding process under the Río Bogotá Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project in Colombia.
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Treasury issues Finding of Violation to State Street subsidiary
The U.S. Treasury Department has found that State Street Bank and Trust violated Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations.
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ArticleReps urge White House to support blockchain
Bipartisan members of Congress are urging the Trump administration to throw its tech focus onto blockchain.
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ArticleSEC to hold roundtable on public marketplace
Coming this summer: An SEC roundtable for the public and SEC staff to discuss short-term and long-term management, the periodic reporting system, and SEC regulations.
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Ireland investigates Google over GDPR
The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Google’s online Ad Exchange violated General Data Protection Regulation provisions.
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ArticleSenate confirms Jeffrey Rosen as deputy attorney general
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Jeffrey Rosen to be the next deputy attorney general, replacing Rod Rosenstein.
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U.S. could ban all Huawei products
New moves from the Commerce Department suggest a full domestic ban on products from the Chinese telecom giant Huawei are forthcoming.
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ArticleEuropean Commission fines five banks €1B over foreign exchange cartel
In two separate settlements, the European Commission fined five banking giants for colluding in the trade of significant sums of foreign currency.
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Former Autonomy CFO sentenced to 60 months in prison
Sushovan Hussain, the former chief financial officer of U.K. software firm Autonomy, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for his role in falsifying the company’s revenues prior to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard.
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ArticleDOJ's Claire McCusker Murray to deliver keynote at CW2019
Newly appointed Department of Justice Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Claire McCusker Murray will deliver a keynote at the upcoming CW annual conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C.
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World Bank Group debars Sieyuan Electric
The World Bank Group has placed a 15-month debarment on Shanghai-based Sieyuan Electric relating to fraudulent practices under the Inter-Zonal Transmission Hub Project.
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ArticleSOX did not end audit opinion shopping, study says
Despite regulatory efforts to make auditors more independent and more skeptical, companies have been able to shop for audit opinions, a new study says.
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SEC fines Telefônica Brasil $4.13M in World Cup ticket case
Spanish telecom provider Telefônica Brasil received a civil penalty for improperly accounting for tickets and hospitality given to government officials.
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France Telecom execs on trial over employee suicides
The trial has begun for seven former France Telecom executives, who stand accused of implementing a severe cost-cutting regime that resulted in the suicides of dozens of employees.
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ArticleCFPB proposes debt collection rule changes
Proposed regulations to renew the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act include unlimited texting and e-mail in collection efforts.
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Commerce slices into Mexican tomato imports
The U.S., mired in a countdown to additional Chinese tariffs, will impose a 17.5 percent tariff on Mexican tomato imports beginning Tuesday. Shortages and spiking prices are predicted.
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Senators chide slow-acting FTC over Facebook fine
With reports that the FTC is still negotiating penalties for Facebook’s breach of a privacy-related consent order, Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal urged the agency to “act swiftly to conclude its investigation.”