Regulation & Compliance
New Securities Class Actions Decline 25% in First Half of Year
Plaintiffs filed 112 new securities class action lawsuits in federal and state courts in the first half of 2021, down 25% from the second half of 2020. This was the lowest number of filings since the ...
Liberty Mutual’s Financial Strength Ratings Won’t Be Harmed by State Auto Acquisition: Fitch Ratings
Liberty Mutual Holding Company's planned $1 billion cash acquisition of State Auto Group should not affect its financial strength rating at all, Fitch Ratings said. The reason: Liberty Mutual is ...
Global Financial Regulators Seek Coordinated Efforts to Prepare for Climate Change Risks
The world's top financial regulators want to coordinate efforts to prepare for potential risks from climate change as authorities still lack common standards for assessing what could be one of the ...
EU Auditors Want Polluters to Have Insurance or Funds to Fix Environment
Taxpayers are too often being forced to pay to clean up environmental damage while the companies responsible dodge the costs, the European Court of Auditors said on Monday. The European Union's ...
NHSTA Orders Crash Reports on Autonomous Vehicles, ADAS-Involved Accidents
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has ordered automakers to report any crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles or partially automated driver assist systems. The move Tuesday by the ...
Robinhood Financial To Pay $70M to Settle Regulatory Probe
Online broker Robinhood Financial LLC has been ordered to pay $70 million for 'systemic supervisory failures' that harmed thousands of consumers in the process, an industry regulator announced on ...
SEC Climate Disclosure Seen Triggering Flood of Lawsuits
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may make corporations reveal more about climate risks in key regulatory filings, a push that Wall Street and the biggest tech companies say will lead to a ...
EU to Update Workplace Safety Rules to Address Remote Work, Mental Health
The European Commission plans to update its rules on worker safety to reflect the shift millions employees made to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and to reflect the anticipated ...