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Could FTC’s Updated Premerger Notification Form Usher Heavier Filing Burden?

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The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division on October 10 announced approval of long-awaited changes to a premerger notification form that provides information used to screen proposed deals. Critics fear updati...

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Cybersecurity Threats to Financial Services Emerge with Growth of AI

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The hit film Terminator 2: Judgment Day cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger’s leading-man status with his portrayal of a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator assigned to help humanity stop the artificial intelligence Skynet from taking over the world....

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Companies Forced to Confront Geopolitical Risks

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When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon talks, people in the business world listen. Some of his remarks in the banking giant’s latest earnings release sent a chilling message. “We have been closely monitoring the geopolitical situation for some...

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Cyber Disclosure Rules Yet to Cause Market Declines Once Feared

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Despite long-simmering dread that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s cybersecurity disclosure rules would cause share prices to plunge, research indicates companies realized only minimal losses after reporting cyber-related incidents....

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SEC Goes After “Fake It Till You Make It” Fraudsters

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In 2022, a jury convicted Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes of perpetrating an audacious fraud against investors in her blood-testing company that turned the Stanford University dropout into a billionaire in her early 20s. Her story ha...

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