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Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on FINRA's Advice to Firms on Protecting Customers from Online Account Takeovers and the FCA's New Authorized Fund Regime for Investing in Long-Term Assets

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

BROKER-DEALER FINRA - Shares Practices Firms Use to Protect Customers from Online Account Takeover Attempts - On April 11, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued Regulatory Notice 21-18 (Notice) in response to increasing reports from customers experiencing customer account t

California Expands Review Of PFOS, PFOA To Include Cancer Risk

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is expanding its review of potential substances to add to its Proposition 65 list of chemicals that cause cancer.

Oregon and Washington Governors Announce Plans to Revise Mask and Distancing Requirements in the Wake of Updated CDC Guidance

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

As we wrote about here, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) announced yesterday that fully vaccinated individuals can resume normal day-to-day activities without wearing masks or socially distancing.

OIG Removes Mandatory Cost-Sharing Obligations for COVID-19 Ambulance Transport Waiver

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

As previously discussed, on April 3, 2020, the U.S.

[Audio] Daily Compliance News: May 17, 2021 the $120MM Non-Payment edition

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: • Les Moonves foregoes $120MM payment from CBS. (WSJ) • Swiss Life enters DPA. (WSJ) • Failure in M&A leads to yet more M&A? (NYT) • Gupta empire now facing fraud scrutiny in UK. (BBC)...

Video Game Distribution: The Next Player to Attract Digital Platform Antitrust Scrutiny

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

The heated video game wars—Xbox Series X vs. PlayStation 5, PC vs. console vs. mobile, AMD vs. Nvidia—show that no one has a monopoly over video games. The hotter question is whether there are monopolies over video game distribution.

Florida Court Finds Nonresident Tobacco Distributor On the Hook For Excise Taxes Regardless of Physical Presence

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

In Global Hookah Distribs. v. Florida, No. 1D20-822 (Apr. 12, 2021), a case before the First District Court of Appeal of Florida, Global Hookah Distributors (Global) unsuccessfully sought a refund of tobacco excise taxes it paid to the State of Florida.

Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of May 17, 2021

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

Keypoint: This week the Colorado Privacy Act passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Alaska’s House Labor and Commerce Committee held another hearing on its bill, Connecticut’s bill was sent to the Senate Appropriations Committee, Nevada’s Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor passe

Sanctions: Am I Off the Hook?

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21

Sanctions are not new.

Requirement for jury unanimity in serious cases isn’t retroactive, Supreme Court rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21


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