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Douglas Cohen, Gerald S. Sachs and Caroline Tsai

What every financial services industry in house counsel needs to know about effective handling of regulatory matters and regulatory expectations. Provide an overview of trends in consumer finance regulation, including the CFPB, and other major federal and state banking regulators. Discuss recent rules, enforcement actions, and regulatory priorities of consumer finance regulators and their applicability to the financial services industry. Compare the consumer finance regulatory regime with other financial industry regulation.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Government
Source: Meetings
Region: United States
Amjad Ali Khan, Stuart Walker and Abdus Samad

The UAE is considered to be one of the most politically stable and secure countries in the region and consequently is regarded as a safe haven for investment in the region and a destination for tourists. This Quick Overview addresses how to protect that investment.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United Arab Emirates
Rubén Ferrer and David Riopérez, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, New York

This Quick Counsel highlights certain corporate and tax aspects related to the directors' remuneration regime in Spain, which applies irrespective of the nationality of the director.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Spain
Foley & Lardner LLP
44 pages

The purpose of this ACC guide (InfoPAK) is to provide an overview of opportunities available as a result of Big Data — the ability to collect, process, and interpret massive amounts of information — in healthcare, and the U.S. regulatory regime that is in part driving such industry change. It provides an overview of the key US federal and state laws pertaining to the collection and secondary use of health data, and suggests strategies and best practices for addressing health privacy and data ownership concerns.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Practical Law

This multi-PAK provides a high level overview of the lending market, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees, and loan agreements. It covers creation and registration requirements for security interests; problem assets over which security is difficult to grant; risk areas for lenders; structuring the priority of debt; debt trading and transfer mechanisms; agent and trust concepts; enforcement of security interests and borrower insolvency; cross-border issues on loans; taxes; and proposals for reform.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Australia, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Jersey, Netherlands, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Mary Grams, Senior Marketer at Thomson Reuters

Bitcoin poses serious risks for inexperienced investors, but Bitcoin also promises a simpler, cheaper, private way to transact online, and advocates argue that Bitcoin can be a democracy and economy builder. This Top Ten will cover questions and issues surrounding this trendy virtual currency.

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Interest Area: Financial Services
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Matheson

Matheson

Michael Jackson - Partner, Dublin Office
Tara Doyle - Partner, London
Philip Lovegrove - Partner, Dublin Office
Liam Collins - Partner, Dublin Office
Dualta Counihan - Partner, Dublin Office
Anne-Marie Bohan - Partner, Dublin Office
Shay Lydon - Partner, Dublin Office
Aiden Kelly - Partner, New York Office
Joe Beashel - Partner, Dublin Office
Elizabeth Grace - Partner, Dublin Office
2 pages

This article features frequently asked questions for Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) bill as it passes through Irish Legislation.

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Interest Area: Financial Services
Source: Resource Library
Region: Ireland
Matheson

Michael Jackson - Partner, Dublin Office
Tara Doyle - Partner, London
Philip Lovegrove - Partner, Dublin Office
Liam Collins - Partner, Dublin Office
Dualta Counihan - Partner, Dublin Office
Anne-Marie Bohan - Partner, Dublin Office
Shay Lydon - Partner, Dublin Office
Aiden Kelly - Partner, New York Office
Joe Beashel - Partner, Dublin Office
Elizabeth Grace - Partner, Dublin Office

The articles highlights the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) bill's benefits and features as it passes through legislation.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Ireland
Peter Sim
5 pages

The article explains in detail the correct usage, abuse of joint accounts regarding estate planning, and the importance os a well documented estate plan in Canada.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Canada
Brett M. Kitt

Unless companies are content to serve as fodder for future editions of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Supervisory Highlights report and as the subjects of glowing CFPB press releases announcing eye-popping consumer recoveries and civil money penalties, they will finally make the investments that are necessary to effectively regulate their own conduct and to minimize the risks they pose to consumers.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
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