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The SEC’s Five Deregulatory Moves in September

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When the morning air gets brisk and the calendar turns to September, we can rely on certain rites of fall: pumpkin spice anything, football season, and a flurry of enforcement activity at the SEC. But this year, something’s different. Inste...

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AI Borrowing Goes to Plaid

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An AI researcher let it slip last week that the technology we’re all embracing could wipe out humanity in the next decade. Bright side: if that came to pass, it would render any concerns expressed in this blog post largely moot. If you want...

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Five Compliance Lessons From the NBA’s Penalty Against the Los Angeles Clippers

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Most corporate governance failures surface slowly and in pieces. A restatement here, a derivative suit there, an 8-K that raises more questions than it answers. However, every so often one arrives fully assembled, with a public findings rep...

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Data Centers Getting Easier to Finance, Harder to Build

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What the right hand giveth, the left hand taketh away. We think someone said that once. Regardless, data center operators might be feeling that sentiment right now, because they are getting contrasting signals about their businesses from tw...

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SEC Hangs Up Its Whistle on Shareholder Proposals

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The SEC is taking the term “no action” more literally than it ever has before. The agency took its first step away from the no-action process last November, when the Division of Corporation Finance said it would stop weighing in on most com...

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