Legal & Regulation
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September 29, 2023
Norway asks Europe to extend Meta ban for GDPR breach
Norway’s data protection authority has called on Europe to extend its country-wide ban on behavioural advertising against Meta’s Facebook and…
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September 28, 2023
Austrian Airlines successfully sued for greenwashing
The Austrian Association for Consumer Information (VKI) has obtained a greenwashing judgment against Austrian Airlines AG (AUA), which had advertised…
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September 26, 2023
Three-quarters of firms not ready for ESG rules, says KPMG
Only 25% of global companies are ready for new ESG regulations and external data audits, according to a KPMG survey.…
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September 25, 2023
UK to impose tougher D&I rules on financial services sector
The UK’s financial regulators have proposed new rules on diversity and inclusion (D&I) to tackle bullying and sexual harassment that…
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September 25, 2023
EC re-imposes €376m Intel fine for computer chip antitrust breach
Intel has been fined €376.4m by the EC for anti-competitive practices, 14 years after it first found the US technology…
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September 21, 2023
EU supervisors stress need for risk management focus
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority…
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September 20, 2023
UK urged not to dilute corporate governance code
The UK has been urged by by the Chartered Governance Institute of UK and Ireland not to water down current…
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September 20, 2023
Airmic ‘encouraged’ by discussions over new UK captive regime
Risk and insurance management association Airmic said it is encouraged by discussions between the London Market Group (LMG), government and…
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September 19, 2023
California to enact ground-breaking ESG disclosure bill
The battle in the US over how far to take the effort on ESG and how accountable corporates are for…
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September 19, 2023
European Parliament adopts position on critical raw materials
The European Parliament has adopted its position on boosting the supply of strategic raw materials, which it says is crucial…
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September 18, 2023
Treasury holds roundtable to consider UK captive proposals
Proposals to create UK captive legislation are moving forward with a meeting between industry representatives and HM Treasury, the London…
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September 18, 2023
TikTok fined €345m for child data GDPR breaches
Social media platform TikTok has been fined €345m for a series of European data protection rule breaches after Europe’s regulators…
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September 14, 2023
Zurich calls for bolder climate policies to support net zero targets
Most companies (77%) across key sectors have a net-zero plan in place, according to research from Zurich Insurance, with 70%…
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September 12, 2023
Eiopa hints again at lighter treatment for captives under SII review
Petra Hielkema, chair of the European insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa), gave further evidence that captives and other smaller…
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September 8, 2023
EC lists 22 online platforms to fall under new digital markets rules
Six tech giants – Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – have been given six months to comply with…
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September 6, 2023
More lawsuits likely in no-harm data breaches
Businesses can expect more court rulings allowing plaintiffs to pursue damages for data breaches, even where there is no evidence…
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September 5, 2023
Supply chain risk in focus as Italian companies transition
During this year’s Italian leg of our Risk Frontiers Europe survey, Anra members identified supply chain risk as a major…
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September 1, 2023
Google’s Fitbit faces GDPR action in Austria, Italy and Netherlands
Vienna-based noyb, the non-profit European Center for Digital Rights, has filed three complaints against Google-owned fitness app Fitbit in Austria,…
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August 31, 2023
Investors demand sharper focus on human rights in sustainability reporting
An investor coalition – managing assets of more than one trillion US dollars, including Impax Asset Management, The Universities Superannuation…
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August 16, 2023
Airmic interested in a UK captive regime but not under Solvency II
Airmic has told Commercial Risk Europe that it supports moves to introduce an onshore captive regime in the UK but…