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Commission review finds personal data protection under US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme effective

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 20 2009

The European Commission has presented the results of its review of the US Treasury Department's undertakings to the European Union regarding the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP

56 new extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties take effect throughout Europe and the United States

  • White & Case LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 8 2010

On February 1, 2010, 56 new agreements between the United States, the European Union ("EU"), and each of the EU Member States addressing extradition and mutual legal assistance took effect, according to the US Department of Justice ("DOJ"

Not so SWIFT agreement

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • June 29 2010

Last week, the European Commission approved a draft agreement setting out the terms on which the details of millions of daily transactions of 8,000 banks in 200 countries could be obtained by US authorities in their fight against terrorism

FinCEN issues conforming amendments to information sharing rule

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 8 2010

On February 5th, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued a final rule to conform its "314(a) program" to agreements with certain foreign jurisdictions, specifically the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance between the United States and the European Union

United States-European Union convergence on insider trading standard

  • Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • January 8 2010

While legal theorists have long debated the differences between U.S. insider trading law, as defined by the U.S. courts and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and the European Union (“EU”) Market Abuse Directive (“MAD”), a recent EU high court ruling suggests that those differences may be disappearing

European Parliament rejects SWIFT's immodest proposal

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 26 2010

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to annul a temporary agreement that allowed the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a Brussels-based international banking consortium, to supply financial transaction data to the U.S. Treasury's Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

European Commission adopts draft agreement on the transfer of financial data from the E.U. and the U.S.

  • A&L Goodbody
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • July 6 2010

The European Commission has adopted a draft Agreement between the E.U. and the U.S. on the transfer of financial data of E.U. citizens, for the purpose of tracking terrorist finance

Extension of the Miranda warning to the EU: a revolution in (Belgian) criminal procedure

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Belgium, European Union, USA
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  • December 9 2010

Criminal law could be considered an unlikely area of interest for business lawyers

New sanctions against Libya

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Libya, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 4 2011

In response to the increasingly violent response by the Qadhafi regime to the protests and revolution occurring in Libya, the international community has responded with a series of new trade sanctions against Libya aimed at Colonel Qadhafi, his family and associates, and his government

New mutual legal assistance treaties facilitate international cooperation in FCPA investigations

  • Jenner & Block
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  • European Union, USA
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  • September 20 2010

On February 1, 2010, fifty-six new agreements regarding extradition and mutual legal assistance between the European Union (EU) and the United States became effective