UK Consumer Duty Has Shaken up the Financial Sector. The Upheaval Isn’t Over
April 8, 2024 By Sebastiaan Bierens, EU Financial Services Analyst The UK financial services landscape faces a host of underappreciated risks from new consumer protection laws. We believe the upheaval in the industry is just beginning, and Europe is likely to follow...
Biden’s Weak and Failing States Problem
April 1, 2024 By Daniel Silverberg and Elena McGovern, co-heads of Capstone’s National Security Practice Immigration is a white-hot electoral issue in the United States. The mere threat of increased immigration stemming from humanitarian crises in Haiti, Venezuela,...
The Weakening of the EU Platform Workers Directive
March 25, 2024 By Eva Borbely, Capstone EU Tech Analyst The European Union’s Platform Workers Directive— a years-long effort to regulate workers’ rights in Europe’s gig economy— is back from the dead. However, what has emerged from the grave has been resurrected with...
TikTok, Apple, Google, and The Growing Clash Between Antitrust and National Security
March 18, 2024 By Ian Tang, Capstone Tech, Media, and Telecommunications Analyst The latest effort by Congress to address perceived national security risks posed by Chinese ownership of TikTok barreled through the House of Representatives last week, and the Senate...
