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Letter to the Editor: Lavoie has the talent, competency we need
This letter is from James Levy, a resident of St. Albans. I do not usually write letters in support of political candidates but feel impelled to do so because of the compelling circumstances surrounding John Lavoie who is running as an Independent for the office of Franklin County State's Attorney. John is a “prosecutor’s prosecutor,” meaning that he possesses all of the professional attributes that an ideal state's attorney should have.
The Hidden Compliance Risk Undermining Modern Advertising Featured
The compliance challenge facing advertisers today isn't necessarily that the rules are becoming harder to follow. It's that ad campaigns have become exponentially more complex to manage. With multiple platforms, markets, asset versions and delivery partners involved, maintaining compliance throughout the campaign lifecycle has become a significant operational undertaking.
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Canada’s approach to U.S. tariffs is failing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump’s trade policies and tariff threats require a new strategy: Think like a CEO Canada is playing the wrong game when it comes to the growing threat of U.S. tariffs. Our current approach—appealing to American policymakers, economists and the altruism of the American people—fails because the audience we’re targeting isn’t even in the room. That room belongs to Donald Trump: a businessman, a dealmaker and a president who governs by decree, not consensus.
Litigation Trending: Judge in Alabama uses AI to assist in determining the meaning of a contractual term
On 28 May 2024, Judge Kevin Newsom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a judgment which has gained a lot of attention (Snell v. United Specialty Insurance Company, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 22-12581). As far as we are aware it is the first time on record that a Judge in the United States has relied on a Large Language Model (LLM) to determine the "ordinary meaning" of a contractual term.
Litigation Trending: 2023 and predictions for 2024
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Once again the commercial litigation team at Ashurst welcomed the New Year with a discussion on the main issues of 2023 and our predictions for 2024. Our top ten are as follows. 1. Alternative Dispute Resolution, or ADR, is no longer an alternative This year we moved several steps closer to Sir Geoffrey Vos’ vision of ADR forming part of an integrated dispute process, rather than being seen as alternative.
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Thought for the Week - Five things to know about crypto
The high-profile failures of crypto businesses, such as FTX, has drawn further attention to the need for regulation to protect investors. The UK Government has published a series of papers addressing its approach to the regulation of cryptoassets, as it seeks to create a balanced, benign environment for crypto-related investment activity in the UK. In this thought for the week, we set out five key messages about the way that the UK regime is taking shape: 1.
UK Government Responds to Submissions on Cryptoassets Regulation - Part 1
The UK Government has published three documents that expound on its plans for the regulation of certain cryptoassets, including fiat-backed stablecoins used for payments: Update on Plans for the Regulation of Fiat-Backed Stablecoins (the Update) Future Financial Services Regulation of Cryptoassets: Response to the Consultation and Call for Evidence (the Response) Managing the Failure of Systemic Digital Settlement Asset (including Stablecoin) Firms: Government Response to Consultation (the...
Spare a Thought for the Four Day Week
As we head into Easter weekend - and with several more bank holidays on the horizon - it begs the question of whether the four-day work week could ever be rolled out across the financial sector on a more permanent basis. Earlier this year, 4 Day Week Global, a non-profit organisation founded by Andrew Barnes, reported its findings on the UK's trial of the four-day work week, which ran from June to December 2022.
Digital Finance Thought Leadership
Insights Digital Finance Thought Leadership The PDF server is offline. Please try after sometime. Below is a selection of Thought Leadership as contributed by our digital finance team. Key Contacts We bring together lawyers of the highest calibre with the technical knowledge, industry experience and regional know-how to provide the incisive advice our clients need. Load More Keep up to date Sign up to receive the latest legal developments, insights and news from Ashurst.
The role of tracing in digital asset disputes
(March 30, 2023) - James Levy, Max De Tommaso and Harry Crabtree of Ashurst LLP discuss how the market and the law in the UK are developing to protect and trace digital assets, in the midst of growth of those assets, as well as corresponding growth in misappropriation. Digital assets have arrived and are here to stay. On-chain assets such as cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens ('NFTs') have quickly become a discernible and popular investment category. Both are susceptible to hacking.
Is enforcement action on the horizon for failed disclosures? FCA warning for ESG benchmarks
What's happened? Another day, another 'Dear CEO' letter. This time the FCA has warned ESG benchmark administrators that they are failing to properly disclose sustainability factors in benchmarks. Benchmark administrators, which can be large financial groups, compile indices from companies with qualifying criteria.
High Court allows service exclusively by NFT
The High Court ruled that proceedings may be served exclusively by non-fungible token (NFT) where no other method of service is available. The case of Osbourne v Persons Unknown Category A is the latest ruling showing the English court's commitment to assist victims of cryptoasset fraud. Background The claimant, Mrs Osbourne, fell victim to a hack when two of her NFTs were transferred out of one of her wallets without her knowledge by unidentified persons.
Chamberlain’s appeasement policy as the cause of World War II?
As any historian knows, there are many dubious assertions in mainstream historical and foreign policy discourse. Few, however, are as dubious yet accepted as the conceit that appeasement caused or helped cause World War II. This moldy little chestnut has gone from an assertion to common wisdom to dogma with little challenge. It was one of those claims that everybody across the political spectrum could endorse. Embarrassed by getting whipped by the Germans in 1940? Blame appeasement.
Cost Vs Gain of War
It’s strange how issues of war and peace divide people so violently today. It wasn’t always that way. Throughout history war has usually failed to command the passions it does now. It seemed a force of nature, like the weather and pestilence. That is largely because to war or not to war was a choice made by individual rulers or tiny elites. They might turn to the priests or shamans to bless their military exploits, but the choice— war or peace—was a monopoly of those who exercised state power.
the story of the largest wallet burglary in Ethereum’s history, a massive mystery, and a…
I’m finally telling the story of how I was granted a development endowment from the Ethereum Foundation… And how within weeks it was lost forever to a hacker who has since vanished. Written by James Levy, founder of TapTrust. With the November 2017 Parity contract fiasco affecting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of ether having recently occurred, there has been a new momentum in discussion around frozen funds on the Ethereum network.
FootHodl: A simple blockchain-powered system for helping people in need
IQ Donate (formerly FootHodl) IQ Donate provides a crucial financial foothold to people in need. It's incredibly simple to use, with a modified xDai burner wallet for volunteer assistants and an SMS interface for those being assisted.
Alternative Finance for Income Investors: A Survey of Market Lending
Like a volcanic island emerging from the sea, a new and largely uncharted territory rich in opportunities for income investors has been unfolding at internet speed during the past several years.
Alternative Finance for Income Investors: A Survey of Market Lending
Like a volcanic island emerging from the sea, a new and largely uncharted territory rich in opportunities for income investors has been unfolding at internet speed during the past several years.
Market Lending vs. Traditional Fixed Income: Which has more Risk?
Market Lending vs. Traditional Fixed Income: Which has more Risk? In this second instalment of my Survey of Market Lending from the investor´s perspective, I intend to analyze the risk of market lending, particularly Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending, in comparison to traditional fixed income tools such as bank deposits and bonds.
Trade Finance Offers Attractive Opportunities for Market Lending Investors
In this fourth installment of a six part survey of market lending from the investor´s perspective, I would like to draw the reader´s attention to trade finance, a little known, but very attractive area of market lending. Trade finance is the short term financing of transactions between buyers and sellers, particularly international transactions. Trade finance investing is neither the most easily understood area of market lending, nor is it the most accessible to investors.
Can Market Lending Attract Sufficient Investors to Support Projected Growth?
In this third instalment of a six part survey of market lending from the investor’s perspective, I would like to address what I see as an important potential bottleneck for the growth of market lending in the future, and the ability of the alternative lending platforms to meet very ambitious growth projections for the coming years.
Escape from the Matrix: Alternative Finance and Investment Advisors
Escape from the Matrix: Alternative Finance and Investment Advisors Neo: I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life. Morpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Towards a New Language for Marketplace Lending Investors
Towards a New Language for Marketplace Lending Investors When I began this series in Altfi.com in June of this year, I compared market lending to a volcanic island emerging from the sea, a new and largely uncharted territory rich in opportunities for income investors. Those opportunities have multiplied and matured significantly even in the brief time since that first article was published.
Short Term Small Business Lending: The Sweet Spot for Investors?
In this fifth instalment of a six part survey of market lending from the investor´s perspective, I would like to draw the reader´s attention to a fast growing new area of market lending that is providing attractive and stable returns to increasing numbers investors on the other side of the pond. This new area is a variation on lending to small businesses that emphasizes short term loans (less than one year) to established businesses while requiring daily or weekly repayment schedules.
Is Marketplace Lending Really a New Asset Class? (And Why This Matters)
Is Marketplace Lending Really a New Asset Class? (And Why This Matters) On reading the title of this article, many Altfi readers will think, “of course marketplace lending is a new asset class”. However, the answer is not nearly so clear, especially to the asset management industry.
Why real estate bridge loan funds should be on investors’ radar
Why real estate bridge loan funds should be on investors’ radar Clearwater Private Investment’s director James Levy reveals why he is backing real estate bridge lending funds for clients’ portfolios. Real Estate Bridge Loan Funds offer investors consistent, non-correlated returns of over 8 per cent p.a. The loans are normally secured by a first mortgage on high quality real estate in jurisdictions that facilitate rapid liquidation in favour of the creditor in the event of non-payment.
Luxembourg secured lending funds: An attractive alternative to traditional fixed income for wealth managers
Luxembourg secured lending funds: An attractive alternative to traditional fixed income for wealth managers It is remarkable...what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about" Virginia Woolf, A Room of One´s Own Though few who practice our trade will admit it publicly, the wealth management industry is immersed in an existential crisis.
When will private banks offer marketplace lending investments?
James Levy, founder of Clearwater Private Investment, argues there are several benefits to P2P and marketplace lending that institutional investors should take note of. A recent headline in the financial press proclaimed, “Morgan Stanley´s VIP Private Banking Clients Finance Spanish Oil Major Repsol at Bargain Rates”. What occurred was the following.
Energy Requirements for Air Stripping Trihalomethanes
References 1 et al. Treatment Techniques for Controlling Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water. EPA-600/2-81-156. MERL, USEPA, Cincinnati, Ohio (1981). 2 & Air Stripping as a Treatment Process. Proc. AWWA Seminar. AWWA, Denver (1981). 3; ; & Mass Transfer of Volatile Organic Compounds in Packed Tower Aeration. Jour. WPCF, 56: 113 (1984). 4 et al. Trihalomethane Removal by Packed-Tower Aeration. Jour. AWWA, 75: 8: 414 (Aug. 1983). 5 et al.
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