A Quick Glance At The Role Of The New EU-wide Authority On AML-CFT: The Anti-Money Laundering Authority – Money Laundering

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In response to the consequences flowing from the divergent transposition and implementation of EU laws on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML-CFT“) within EU Member States, and the continued expansion, and increased sophistication, of cross-border financial crime within the EU, in July 2021 the European Commission launched a new AML-CFT legislative package. This legislative package…

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Alberta Regulation 23/2022 – Prompt Payment And Construction Lien Act – Construction & Planning

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On August 29, 2022, Alberta’s Builder’s Lien (Prompt Payment) Amendment Act2020 (the “act“) will come into force and overhaul the Builder’s Lien Act (the “BLA“), with significant amendments and a renaming to “the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act”. On February 25, 2022, the Government of Alberta released the Prompt Payment and Adjudication Regulations (the…

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The Four Steps to Change Anything In Your Life

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I talk a lot about integrity in helping people to establish themselves in business, and for good reason. One of the main things that led me down a very dark path and almost took my life, was living without it. That realization, along with many others, helped…

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Prepare NOW to Manage Your Workforce Through a Cyberattack

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It is every employer’s worst nightmare: an unsuspecting employee receives an email in the early morning from an individual claiming to be his supervisor. The email asks him to follow up on an urgent work assignment that needs his immediate attention. With multiple deadlines fast approaching, he does not think twice. He opens the email…

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Analyzing images in the blink of an eye and tracking the lifecycle of snow – TechCrunch

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Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron (previously Deep Science), aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers – particularly in, but not limited to, artificial…

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Employment Contracts: Leave No Room For Interpretation! – Employee Benefits & Compensation

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What You Need To Know The Alberta Court of Appeal emphasized the importance of clearly identifying the term of an employment contract and the parties’ obligations and entitlements on termination. This case is an important reminder to parties to be diligent when drafting, negotiating, or entering into employment contracts. While the beginning of an employment…

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Supreme Court to Re-Examine Fair Use: Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

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On March 28ththe Supreme Court granted certiorari in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a case involving the core issues around copyright fair use. The case involves a series of Warhol drawings and silkscreen prints adapted from an original photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith. Likely to interplay with the recent fair use decision in Google…

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Will US Customs Seize Your Presumptively Illegal Apparel? Compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

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Some apparel, fabric and other goods just became more likely to get stuck at the border if US Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) suspects they contain cotton from Xinjiang or from companies on a recently published US Government list, or otherwise involve forced labor — whether the brand is aware of it or not. How…

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Contractors Must Dance With The IDIQ That Brought Them: Protester’s Too Late Objection To Task Order Solicitation That Mirrors The Base Contract Solicitation – Government Contracts, Procurement & PPP

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27 June 2022 Arnold & Porter To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts are intended to simplify contract competitions in several ways. IDIQ contracts reduce the field of competitors for each task order to the pool of awardees, but they…

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Physician-Owned Medical Device Company

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On April 25, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-07 which evaluated the risk of fraud and abuse under the federal anti-kickback statute (“AKS”) posed by an arrangement involving physician-ownership of a medical device company. The opinion identified six characteristics of the arrangement which greatly reduced the risk of fraud…

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