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Key developments of interest over the last month include: the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s decision to restart the open banking rulemaking process; the UK FCA’s publication of a policy statement with final rules and guidance for stage 1 ‘Supplementary Regime’ reforms to the safeguarding regime for payments and e-money firms; the commencement of Hong…

Orrick’s Founder Series offers monthly top tips for UK startups on key considerations at each stage of their lifecycle, from incorporating a company through to possible exit strategies….By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The FCA believes that some payments firms do not currently have sufficiently robust safeguarding practices. This poses a risk of harm to consumer and market integrity that the FCA is seeking to mitigate….By: Hogan Lovells

In the recent decision of NOCO Company v. Brown and Watson International Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 887, Moshinsky J has provided welcomed clarity around the relevant date by which the best method known to the applicant is to be identified for divisional patent applications….By: K&L Gates LLP

Maine, like most states, recognizes four fundamental common-law privacy torts: intrusion, appropriation, false light, and public disclosure. This article summarizes the tort of intrusion, sometimes called intrusion upon the seclusion of another….By: Verrill

The Delaware Supreme Court’s 3-2 Aearo Technologies LLC Insurance Appeals decision on August 12, 2025 affirmed a lower court ruling that payment of defense costs by a non-insured did not count toward the insured’s self-insured retention, and that the insured’s payment of the self-insured retention was a condition precedent to the insurer’s obligation to cover…