Get ready to comply with the five new data privacy laws that will come into effect in January 2025 in Delaware, Nebraska, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. With the active enforcement by several states’ Attorneys General and a trend toward broader applicability, data privacy compliance is becoming increasingly important and complex. Companies should carefully evaluate whether they are subject to any laws coming into effect and take steps to ensure compliance.
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As the new U.S. federal landscape takes shape, this outlook report is designed to provide key insights into policy implications and how they may impact various industries in 2025, including agriculture, energy and environment, healthcare, tax, technology, trade, and transportation and infrastructure.
Unless your entity qualifies for 1 of the 23 exemptions, all entities—including limited liability companies and limited partnerships—created prior to January 1, 2024 are required to file reports under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) by January 1, 2025. Willful violations can result in civil and criminal penalties for failure to comply with the CTA requirements. Set forth here is a summary of the CTA beneficial ownership regulations, the types of entities that are exempt, and the filing requirements that include disclosure of information about the entities’ beneficial owners.
If you’re a business owner of a registered entity such as a corporation, partnership, or LLC, or the trustee or beneficiary of a trust that owns such an entity, you may be subject to a reporting obligation under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) that was enacted on January 1, 2021. By mandating the disclosure of beneficial ownership information, the CTA seeks to enhance transparency and accountability while curbing illicit activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, and tax fraud.
Cyber threats are seen as the third most impactful risk to businesses over the next three years, after the cost of capital and economic downturns, respectively. Threat actors are not only deploying new tactics using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct more targeted and sophisticated attacks, but they are also advancing familiar threats like ransomware with increased severity. The evolving regulatory landscape and the increasing adoption of cloud software also pose new challenges for cyber leaders.
At its core, the New York LLC Transparency Act (NYLTA) aims to bolster transparency and combat unlawful activities by requiring the disclosure of beneficial ownership information (BOI) by limited liability companies (LLCs) organized under or operating within New York. While the NYLTA was initially slated to take effect during 2024, an amendment has delayed its effective date until January 1, 2026.
Amid the growing excitement surrounding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, CFOs in asset management and banking remain keenly focused on the impact that these tools can have on their clients. AI is enabling asset management firms to provide investors with valuable insights from extensive datasets, assisting them in selecting the most profitable strategies. Similarly, technology is aiding banks in serving their customers more effectively and efficiently, fostering long-term relationships.
For board members and non-executive directors, generative AI stands as a pivotal innovation that offers unprecedented opportunities to drive business value, improve productivity, reach broader audiences, streamline operations, and help address complicated global issues. However, it also raises complex business and ethical questions. To gain the full trust of stakeholders and customers, AI systems need to be designed with governance, risk, legal, and ethical frameworks in mind.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released the Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure Rules in August 2023, requiring registrants to provide and report timely information about their cyber risk so that investors can make informed investment decisions. With the rules in place, the SEC expects that companies will apply materiality considerations for cybersecurity incidents as they would be applied regarding any other risk or event—through the lens of the reasonable investor.
This report, which is rich with actionable data and insights from over 4,576 risk and human resource professionals, is your guide for a proactive, predictive, and disciplined approach to people risk management. It outlines key workforce threats under five pillars of risk—including technological change and disruption, health, well-being and safety, and benefits cost increases—facing employers worldwide and the impact they can have on your organization. Use this report to identify, prioritize, and manage the most critical people risks across your organization.