UK firms should expect heightened FCA attention on Consumer Duty, financial crime, and safeguarding compliance, with continually high standards at the application gateway.
By Brett Carr, Stuart Davis, Gabriel Lakeman, and Christian F. McDermott
On 25 March 2026, the FCA published its Regulatory Priorities report aimed at firms operating in the UK
How Authors Lose Control in Publishing Deals and Media Rights Agreements by Beth B. Moore
How Authors Lose Control in Publishing Deals and Media Rights Agreements
If you are about to sign a publishing agreement or a producer has expressed interest in your work, you are deciding who controls that work across publishing, film, audio,
A recap from Intapp Amplify 2026
From answers to action: the rise of Firm AI
The distinction Intapp drew at Amplify between horizontal AI and Firm AI is worth sitting with. Horizontal AI knows the internet. It can draft an email, summarize a document, answer a question. What it can’t do is connect the fact
BankInfoSecurity.com reported that Subra Kumaraswamy, CISO at Visa said “Trust remains central to global payments as artificial intelligence reshapes cybersecurity and commerce. Organizations must secure transactions while adapting to faster, more complex threats…” The March 23, 2026 interview entitled “AI Redefines Trust in Global Payments” (https://tinyurl.com/3ckw3y6d) included these comments:
AI has long supported
I’ve been discussing Agentic AI for some time now. It started off more in theory then it got very practical with a recent podcast about Agent platforms. Today we have a real example of Agentic AI in practice in the insurance industry. Artem leads a company that is proving the value of autonomous agents in
Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality in a
On March 6, the White House released its “Cyber Strategy for America.” Its goal is to “communicate[] the Trump [a]dministration’s cyber vision” and to identify “six policy pillars, which will guide action and resourcing through the follow-on policy vehicles.” Obviously, the policy pillars are nonprescriptive and will generate numerous questions from agency and industry stakeholders.
For all my government communicator/social media coordinator readers, the Government Social Media Conference (GSMCON) has released its full schedule for this year’s annual conference which will take place May 4 – 7, 2026 in New Orleans and will offer both in-person and virtual attendance options. You can find the full schedule here. Note that if
Intapp has partnered with FINARCH to accelerate AI-driven transformation for private markets firms –– specifically in the United States, Canada, APAC, and francophone regions. Through this partnership, FINARCH will resell Intapp DealCloud and use their deep expertise in implementation and digital transformation strategy to ensure firms achieve successful deployment and long-term business value.
As we honor the leaders who are rewriting the script for the American workforce, I am thrilled to welcome a true visionary to the Legal Lens Podcast. April Verrett is the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), an organization representing over 2 million workers across North America. In 2024, April made history