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Germany Update: Increased due diligence for the benefit of people and the environment – the supply chain law is coming!
After long preparations, the draft law on corporate due diligence in supply chains , the so-called Due Diligence Act , was discussed in the Bundestag on April 22, 2021 (BT-Drs. 19/28649). Following the debate in the Bundestag, the...
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Saudi Arabia Update: FINTECH COMPANIES ALLOWED TO JOIN PAYMENT SYSTEM
Saudi Arabia’s Central Bank has announced that Fintech companies can join the national Mada payment system. Saudi Payments said the companies STC Pay and Geidea had joined the network as...
read moreRegulating Startups to Death: The Curious Case Of The Nigerian Regulators.
INTRODUCTION 8 April 2021: The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released a circular titled “Proliferation of Unregistered Online Investment and Trading Platforms Facilitating Access to Trading in Securities Listed in...
read moreThe state of play of cryptocurrency in India
In the past few years, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, Bitcoin Cash and Dogecoin has attracted users and investors alike. Originally meant to be a borderless payment mechanism,...
read moreNew Jersey Law Requires Insurers to State Whether Business Interruption Policies Cover Global Virus Transmission, Pandemic Coverage
On May 12, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill requiring insurers to go on record as to whether their policies, which provide coverage for the...
read moreUS update: Is This the Year the Independent Contractor Wall Comes Tumbling Down?
For more than a decade, a war has been raging between companies and workers who want to utilize an independent contractor relationship on one hand, and labor unions and governments...
read moreGermany Update: New main law for Data Protection
Introduction With the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, or TTDSG for short, a new data protection act was passed by the federal government on February 10, 2021 . The corresponding ministerial draft of...
read moreGermany Update: News on vacation entitlement with “Short Term Zero Hours Contracts”
As early as May 2020, we reported about vacation entitlements for short-time work. The main topic was the effects of short-time working on vacation entitlements from the current vacation year. According to...
read moreColombia Update: Blockchain guide and regulatory challenges
The application of emerging technologies (TE) is becoming more common and even their momentum comes from the same governments around the world. Indeed, regulators are reconsidering their approaches, adopting more...
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