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Corporate Transparency Act Beneficial Reporting Still on Hold Nationwide – Stay Tuned
January.27.2025
A nationwide stay of the CTA issued by a district court in Texas on January 7, 2025, remains in place.
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Corporate Transparency Act on Hold (Again), Pending Further Litigation
December.27.2024
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is once again enjoined nationwide, and the CTA’s requirements to file reports of beneficial ownership are again ...
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The Corporate Transparency Act: Beneficial Ownership Reporting Deadline Approaches
by Jeanine P. McGuinness, Benjamin Hutten, Maria Sergeyeva and Magda Gathani | October.16.2024
The deadline quickly approaches for companies created or registered to do business in the US before 2024 to report beneficial ownership information.
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FinCEN Proposes Changes to Anti-Money Laundering Program Requirements for Financial Institutions: 5 Things to Know
by Benjamin Hutten, Jeanine P. McGuinness, Magda Gathani and Avery Turzanski | July.23.2024
FinCEN has proposed a rule to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism, adding significant compliance requirements if adopted.
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Servicers and the Expanding Student Loan Law Landscape
by Kathryn Ryan and Magda Gathani | April.04.2023
Student debt has long been an area of national concern, predating the Biden administration's efforts to reduce it, and the matter's subsequent ...
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What Commercial Finance Companies Need to Know About New Commercial Financing Disclosure Rules
by Melissa Baal Guidorizzi, Sherry-Maria Safchuk, Magda Gathani, Taylor Ranfos and Jaclyn Schwizer | March.13.2023
Increased focus on commercial financing transactions has driven states to introduce consumer lending disclosure regimes to commercial financing.
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Empire State of Privacy: Recent Developments in New York's Privacy and Cybersecurity Laws
by Amanda Lawrence, Elizabeth McGinn, Sasha Leonhardt and Magda Gathani | March.01.2021
New York over the past few years has steadily raised the bar on privacy and cybersecurity standards for commercial enterprises.
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Confusion Surrounding the Privacy Shield Rollback
August.17.2020
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last month invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which over 5,000 companies have relied on as a ...
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Don't Let Your Shield Down—FTC Gets Tough On EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework
by Elizabeth McGinn and Magda Gathani | February.18.2020
The Federal Trade Commission took more enforcement actions related to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework in 2019 and the beginning of 2020 than it ...
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Website Cookies and Privacy—GDPR, CCPA, and Evolving Standards for Online Consent
by Amanda Lawrence, Sasha Leonhardt and Magda Gathani | November.14.2019
Virtually all companies with high-traffic websites use cookies to track visitors’ online experience, but global best practices in disclosing the use ...
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Navigating Today's Biometric Landscape
by Elizabeth McGinn, Scott Sakiyama and Magda Gathani | April.03.2019
Biometrics-based authentication of payments and other transactions has been on the rise for the past several years, promising unparalleled ...