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EU Merger Guidelines Overhaul: Innovation Defence Rising in the Draghi Era

The European Commission is revising its merge...

Reforms center on a four-pronged framework as...

The EC is considering an explicit “innovation...

R&D-intensive and tech sectors must now embed...

Canada’s 2025 Budget Unveils Open Banking & Tightened Stablecoin Oversight

Americas Policy Financial Services

Canada’s 2025 budget formalizes a national co...

Consumers and small businesses will gain stan...

The draft Stablecoin Act imposes strict one-t...

The reforms aim to boost competition and fint...

Doug Guzman Named CEO of Canada’s New Defence Investment Agency to Overhaul Procurement

Americas Policy Aerospace & Defense

Canada has created a new Defence Investment A...

The DIA’s mandate is to centralize and speed ...

Initial DIA-managed projects include submarin...

Guzman’s performance will be judged on how ef...

Mastering Tax Rules for Section 1256, Futures & Options: Wash-Sale, Straddle, Loss Carrybacks

Americas Policy Financial Services

U.S. taxation of futures and options hinges o...

Section 1256 net losses can be carried back u...

Options and other derivatives outside Section...

Core Section 1256 rules remain unchanged, but...

Private Equity’s Rising Political Clout Sparks Healthcare & Housing Regulation Risks

Americas Policy Private Equity

New research shows that when private equity a...

Private equity control in healthcare is linke...

With leveraged buyouts and assets under manag...

Regulators, lawmakers, and advocacy groups ar...

Calviño’s EIB Strategy: Unity, Defence Finance & Climate Powerhouse

Europe Policy Financial Services

EIB President Nadia Calviño argues that Europ...

The EIB will raise defence and security lendi...

Key priorities include cutting red tape, adva...

These moves increase the EIB’s risk tolerance...

Louisiana Homeowners See 7.5% Rate Cut for SURE & Elevate Amid Regulatory Reform

Americas Policy Financial Services

Louisiana approved an average 7.5% rate decre...

SURE, the state’s second-largest homeowners i...

The rate cuts are driven mainly by lower rein...

Recent regulatory reforms and mitigation focu...

How 340B, ACA Subsidy Rollbacks & PBM Reform Will Reshape Strategy for Insurers & Health Providers

Americas Policy Healthcare

In 2025, Republicans shifted from defending A...

GOP legislative focus centered on tightening ...

A federal court halted HRSA’s 340B Rebate Mod...

With enhanced ACA subsidies set to lapse at t...

How U.S. Fiscal Policy Is Shaping Treasury Yields, Inflation, and Debt Issuance

Americas Policy Financial Services

After April 2025 “Liberation Day” tariffs spa...

Key tactics include favoring short-term T-bil...

Despite these efforts, large deficits, high d...

The truce remains fragile, with inflation, Fe...

CFPB Revisits Section 1033: Banks Push for Data Access Fees, Fintechs Face New Competitive Threats

Americas Policy Banking

The CFPB’s 2024 PFDR rule created the first b...

Major banks and trade groups argue the rule i...

JPMorgan and other large banks have begun or ...

CFPB has moved to vacate and rewrite parts of...