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Hong Kong Strengthens Its Personal Data Privacy Laws and Imposes Criminal Penalties on Direct Marketing
Anita Leung,Mauricio F. Paez, May 16, 2013
In 2012 Hong Kong introduced the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Ordinance (the "Amendments" ) to, amongst other things, strengthen restrictions on the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes. The Amendments modify Hong Kong’s 1997 Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance...

The New York State Department of Financial Services at the One-Year Mark: A New Aggressive Regulator Worth Following
Robert W. Gaffey,Harold K. Gordon,Henry Klehm,Howard F. Sidman,Jayant W. Tambe, May 15, 2013
Since the New York State Department of Financial Services ("DFS") began operations in late 2011, the agency appears to have lived up to its billing as an activist regulator of insurers and financial institutions. DFS has taken on several novel issues and will likely continue to do so....

FIRREA Civil Money Penalties: The Government's Newfound Weapon Against Financial Fraud
Antonio F. Dias,Edwin L. Fountain,Alex P. McBride,Lawrence K. Nesbitt,Courtney Lyons Snyder, May 9, 2013
In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") has begun using the civil money penalty provision of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 ("FIRREA") to investigate and prosecute persons suspected of financial fraud. Although FIRREA was...

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