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Make Timely Hard Decisions

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

Making hard decisions isn’t easy. But as my wife says, “hard decisions, easy life or easy decisions, hard life.” This is true in your personal life and your business. In business, employees, and peers are watching. If you fail to act - or delay acting - people will notice.

COVID-19 Report for Life Sciences and Health Care Companies October 2020 # 3

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

In Tuesday's Report: FDA warns over drug misbranded as COVID-19 treatment; podcast discusses Trump's "Buy American" executive order; an op-ed on the importance of protecting biomedical innovation; HHS sees high level departures; and U.S.

Consumer finance regulatory news, October 2020 # 3

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

Debt Breathing Space Regulations: FCA CP20/21 - The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper, CP20/21, on changes to its Handbook resulting from the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations

Interim Rule on CMMC and NIST 800-171 Assessments Creates New Cybersecurity Compliance Requirements for Contractors

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

Cybersecurity has been an increasingly important compliance area for government contractors for more than a decade. Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has been laying the foundation for a new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)....

Diversity in the Boardroom: A Litigation and Governance Update

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

Recent events have brought renewed attention to the push for greater diversity in the boardroom. In this alert, we discuss several developments highlighting the need for public company directors to remain focused on diversity issues....

Payments regulatory news, October 2020 # 4

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

Payments landscape review: FMLC response to HM Treasury call for evidence - The Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) has published response to HM Treasury's call for evidence, launched in July 2020 as part of the payments landscape review.

Goldman Sachs Settles Massive 1MDB Bribery Case and Agrees to Pay Nearly $3 Billion (Part I of III)

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

The Justice Department finally closed out its investigation of Goldman Sachs’ massive bribery scheme involving Malaysia’s 1MDB fund.  The case is now the largest in US FCPA history (based on its payment to DOJ and related US agencies)....

Compliance Roadblocks: Tackling Information Blocking Challenges in Health Care

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

On May 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) signaled a paradigm shift in the manner in which patient electronic health information (EHI) is accessed, used, and disclosed....
By: Wiley Rein LLP

The Netherlands: Can an employee hide and then seek a notice payment?

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

The Central Netherlands District Court recently held that failure to turn up at work and to contact an employer about the absence justifies summary dismissal....
By: Littler

Banking and finance regulatory news, October 2020 # 4

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/10/20

Implementation of CRD V: PRA CP17/20 - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a consultation paper, CP17/20, setting out proposed changes to its rules, supervisory statements (SS) and statements of policy (SoP) implementing elements of the Capital Requirements Directive V (CR

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