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“For tracking litigation, enforcement, and regulatory developments, Compliance Week
should be your prime source.”- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Neil Hodge2025-04-21T12:00:00
The United Kingdom’s latest effort to encourage regulators to pare down rules to attract companies and investment as a way to stimulate the economy has received mixed reviews from lawyers.
That’s because the drive to scrap regulations not only brings into question which rules should be deemed defunct and why, but more importantly, whether the UK’s system of regulators acting as both watchdogs and market cheerleaders is conflicted and flawed. Relaxing regulatory scrutiny to make business run more smoothly could create the opposite effect.
“Deregulation could bring an increase in risk,” warned Parham Kouchikali, a partner at law firm Taylor Wessing. “We expect there could be an uptick in investigations and disputes in the next three to five years as a result.”
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2025-05-29T13:25:00Z By Neil Hodge
To both clean up corporate behaviour and rack up its own enforcement record, the UK’s anti-bribery agency has seemingly largely guaranteed companies a pass from prosecution if they spill the beans on their misconduct. There’s only one problem: experts believe businesses may still stand a better outcome if they front ...
2025-05-01T14:39:00Z By Neil Hodge
Antitrust infringement cases in the United Kingdom can run on for years, but there’s a question whether issuing fines that are dwarfed by the revenues of those organisations involved is a worthy deterrent—particularly if they are imposed over a decade after the misconduct ended. It’s also debatable whether the first ...
2025-06-07T01:41:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
The Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins explained his agency’s shift on cryptocurrency regulation to a Senate committee as legislators bargain over President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and the GENIUS Act, which would have the federal government invest heavily in cryptocurrency.
2025-05-30T18:06:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
A new law in Texas will go into effect next January that requires Apple and Google to verify the age of their app store users. This marks another piece of legislation from the state level intended to protect children, and the second such law specifically from Texas to limit children’s ...
2025-05-23T16:46:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Thousands of computers and other consumer electronic devices imported into the U.S. that were certified as safe by foreign laboratories have been identified as having links to the Chinese government or military, Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said Thursday in announcing an order to close the security ...
2025-05-22T15:46:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged cryptocurrency company Unicoin, three top executives, and its general counsel with defrauding investors of $110 million by selling them bogus “rights certificates” in a future cryptocurrency coin.
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