Topic
Transparency
804 published works
The Nickel Report
EPA’s New Guidance Rule: Are Accessibility and Transparency Improved?
The United States Environmental Protection Agency recently published a final rule on “EPA Guidance; Administrative Procedures for Issuance and Public Petitions.” 85 Fed. Reg. 66,230 (Oct. 19, 2020). The Guidance…
Intellectual Property Trends
Hospitals Have Trade Secrets Too
By Peggy Keene
Can the Healthcare Industry Claim Pricing as Trade Secret Information to Avoid Disclosure?As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe, increased scrutiny has fallen on the national…
International Trade Insights
U.S. and Brazil Update Agreement to Increase Transparency and Combat Corruption
By Stephen Brophy, Camron Greer
The United States and Brazil signed a new protocol on anti-corruption and trade facilitation as an update to the existing 2011 Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation (ATEC). According to…
Down the Wire
The Future of Annual Reporting?
By Andrew Glaze
The FRC have published a discussion paper in which they question whether the traditional concept of the annual report remains fit for purpose. Arguably, annual reports are too long, impenetrable…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
ESMA proposes amendments to the MiFIR transparency regime for non-equity financial instruments
On 29 September 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a final report on the MiFID II/MiFIR transparency regime applicable to non-equity financial instruments. In section 3 of…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Guidance on the annex to ESMA opinion determining third-country trading venues for the purpose of transparency under MiFIR
On 29 September 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a document providing guidance on the annex to its opinion determining third country trading venues for the purpose of…
The Right Coast
Trump revokes Obama rule on reporting drone strike deaths – BBC News
The 2016 executive order was brought in by then-President Barack Obama, who was under pressure to be more transparent.Since the 9/11 terror attack, drone strikes have been increasingly used against…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
ESMA provides for the option to apply the annual transparency calculations for non-equity instruments from 21 September
By Hannah Meakin (UK), Hannah McAslan (UK)
On 7 September 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that it had decided that trading venues and investment firms may postpone, for operational reasons, the application of…
Simple Justice
Seaton: #Butthisemails With New Dispatches From Mud Lick
Prefatory note: I met up with someone using the handle “BlueDragon34” on my Discord server last week who informed me “StickyWeeks” is currently in jail awaiting trial for his brave…
Municipal Minute
Quorum Forum Live: Public Records on Personal Accounts
Quorum Forum 43: Public Records on Personal Accounts – LIVE!Join us for a live recording of the latest episode of Ancel Glink's Quorum Forum podcast at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday,…