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FCA Warns It Will Crack Down on ESG Mislabeling
08/11/2022
Earlier this week, the FCA warned the industry that it will scrutinize the marketing used by hedge funds and private equity firms about ESG related investment products to ensure they ...
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LinkedIn Gets Its Way Against hiQ As Meta Files New Web Scraping Cases
08/05/2022
In a sad footnote to the landmark web scraping case hiQ Labs Inc v LinkedIn Corporation, a federal judge in San Francisco vacated the 2017 order that required Microsoft-owned LinkedIn ...
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US Data Privacy Legislation — With More Bite than GDPR — May Actually Happen
08/02/2022
The US House of Representatives will be voting on a new data privacy law that passed out of committee with strong bipartisan support. The new bill, which would largely supersede ...
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SEC No-Action Letters on MiFID II Won’t Be Extended
07/28/2022
Earlier this week, as part of his prepared remarks at the PLI: Investment Management 2022 conference, William Birdthistle the SEC Director, Division of Investment Management explained that the SEC does ...
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Alternative Data Provider Sensor Tower Beefs Up Compliance
07/01/2022
Even before the SEC’s enforcement action against rival App Annie, app usage provider Sensor Tower became more forthcoming about its data collection methods, thanks to negative publicity. The firm has ...
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Investigative Research Firm Blue Heron Research Adds More Compliance
06/10/2022
Due diligence specialist Blue Heron Research Partners, now the largest investigative research firm focused on the buy-side, hired a former SEC Enforcement attorney as a supplement to the firm’s current ...
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SEC Extends Comment Period for Proposed Climate Change Disclosure
05/20/2022
Under pressure from opponents of new rules requiring US public companies to disclose climate change data, the US Securities and Exchange Commission extended the deadline for comments by four weeks, ...
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Does Alternative Data Really Carry Insider Trading Risk?
05/05/2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations recently warned US investment advisers that it was finding deficiencies in their compliance processes relating to material non-public information (MNPI) associated ...
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SEC’s Proposed Climate Change Disclosure Still Faces Hurdles
04/26/2022
New rules requiring US public companies to disclose climate change data face challenges that will test the Securities and Exchange Commission’s commitment to climate reporting. Comments on the draft regulation ...
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Ninth Circuit Rules (Again) in Favor of Web Scraping But LinkedIn Will Keep Litigating
04/22/2022
The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a federal anti-hacking law that bars unauthorized access to computer systems, does not ...