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AI & the GDPR: How to Reconcile Both Areas from the European Law Perspective
Artificial intelligence is the latest in a long wave of disruptive technology, offering significant benefits but also creating risks if deployed in an uncontrolled manner. The EU AI Act ...Read more
Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Independence of the Compliance Function & What Makes a Compliance Officer Successful
This article addresses the question of why the Compliance Function in financial services firms, including banks, needs to be independent, and the factors that can contribute to such independence. “‘Independent’...Read more
Elizabeth Fiorelli
Assistant Adviser of Global Legal and Compliance , Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited, New York Branch, USA
ESG - General Counsels as the Watchdog, Champion or Leader?
When the Bank I work for commenced its most recent annual strategy process, I was asked by the CEO to create the strategy for the Bank in response to two...Read more
Richard Bryan
General Counsel, Cambridge & Counties Bank Limited, UK
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part Two: Focus on Real Estate Transactions
Part One of this Article focused on the U.S. Government’s anti-money laundering/contra terrorist financing (“AML”) efforts, certain deficiencies in the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which was enacted following the terrorist...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part One
The U.S. Government finally seems to begin focusing on closing long-standing and significant gaps in existing anti-money and contra-terrorist financing laws (together, “AML”) that have been in existence for nearly...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
Metaverse and Privacy
From Facebook's recent decision to rename itself "Meta" to Epic Games' billion-dollar investment in metaverse technologies, the metaverse has dominated the news and will likely continue to do so over...Read more
Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Gary Weingarden
Counsel, Data Protection Officer, Notarize, Inc., USA
Is a Single Bank Supervisor Inevitable throughout the European Union?
Nineteen Member States (out of 27) of the European Union have currently adopted the euro as their common currency and joined the banking union of the EU. By treaty provision...Read more
Duncan Alford
Associate Dean and Professor, University of South Carolina, USA
ESG Colourwashing: Combating Modern-day Corporate Hypocrisy
Driven partly by the COVID-19 crisis, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria have gained significant relevance, creating a growing market demand for both ESG-based consumer and investor products. This is...Read more
Timo Matthias Spitzer
Head of Legal Corporate and Investment Banking Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Scandinavia, Banco Santander, SA., Germany
Klemen Kreca
Associate, Schönherr Attorneys at Law, Slovenia
Business rescue may be used to restructure South African state-owned companies
The year 2021 marked ten years since the introduction of a new restructuring and administration regime in South African law, known as "business rescue", by the Companies Act, 2008. Since...Read more
Lerothodi Mohale
Senior Associate, Cdh, South Africa
Sibonile Moyo
Head: Legal Investments (SA) , Development Bank of Southern Africa, South Africa
There May Yet be Hope for Lawyers Exploring Relationship and Service Quality for Increased Value and as Competitive Barriers in Legal Departments
In his ominously titled book, “The End of Lawyers?” , Richard Susskind warns of the impending risk of lawyers being replaced by technology.
The legal industry is being fundamentally disrupted...Read more
Audrey Ng
Head of Legal, South East Asia, State Street, Singapore