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Key Policy Updates, New FAQs and Hint of Pay for Performance Changes to Come

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

On December 17, 2024, one of the two most influential proxy advisory firms, ISS, released its Proxy Voting Guidelines Benchmark Policy Changes for 2025: US, Canada, and Americas Regional, which provides updates to its voting policies for the 2025 proxy season.

CFPB issues final rule on Property Assessed Clean Energy financing

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

On December 17, the CFPB finalized a rule concerning Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. The final rule integrated existing residential mortgage protections to PACE loans, providing TILA and RESPA disclosure requirements in connection with PACE loans.

Bipartisan AI Task Force Report Sets the Stage for Health Care AI Action in 2025

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a comprehensive 253-page report providing a roadmap for Congress as it develops policies to regulate and optimize the use of this rapidly advancing technology. The bipartisan task force, cochaired by Reps.

CTA Compliance Restored

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the immediate enforceability of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). In the case Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v.

New York State amends banking laws to require provision of pamphlet of mortgage applicant’s rights

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

On December 13, the Governor of New York signed into law AB 9686, which amends the New York State banking law by requiring the Superintendent of Financial Services to develop an informational pamphlet titled “What Mortgage Applicants Need to Know” and make the pamphlet available to residential mo

Reporting Companies Have Less Than Three Weeks to File Beneficial Ownership Info With FinCEN

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

On Dec. 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted the government’s emergency motion for a stay of a District Court’s nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).

US Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Back in Effect, With Deadline Extensions

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

In an order dated December 23, 2024, in the case Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v.

Fifth Circuit Decision Reinstates Corporate Transparency Act Deadlines

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

In a per curiam ruling dated Dec. 23, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary stay of the district court’s Dec.

CTA Revived: Corporate Transparency Act Injunction Lifted by Federal Court and Filing Deadlines Extended

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted the preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”)....
By: Epstein Becker & Green

The Brobdingnagian Immodesty Of The CTA

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24

In 1729, the Anglo-Irish clergyman Jonathan Swift devised what he called a "modest proposal" to for preventing the children of poor people from becoming a burden to their parents and country.  In a nutshell, he proposed that indigent children "be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fort

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