Sentences with phrase «regulators protecting the public»

And this, of course, is the point: You never saw federal regulators protecting the public interest.

Not exact matches

To protect the public without overreacting, the issue for legislators and regulators to weigh is how much the data - driven ecosystem is worth to us.

Cases against regulators often are filed by trade associations to protect individual companies from any potential blowback from the government or the public.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

This session [explored] the public policy landscape for blockchain tech, including the key question of how regulators and operators can balance the fine line between protecting consumers and stifling innovation.»

We work with industry leaders, legislators, and regulators to create the kind of public policy that improves vehicle safety, encourages technological innovation, and protects our planet.

«With regard to antibiotics, there are proposals that would enable regulators to take action to protect public health should they see fit.

'' «notes the threats to the future of the Royal Mail and welcomes the conclusion of the Hooper Report that, as part of a plan to place the Royal Mail on a sustainable path for the future, the current six days a week universal service obligation (USO) must be protected, that the primary duty of a new regulator should be to maintain the USO, and that the Government should address the growing pensions deficit; notes that modernisation in the Royal Mail is essential and that investment must be found for it; endorses the call for a new relationship between management and postal unions; urges engagement with relevant stakeholders to secure the Government's commitment to a thriving and prosperous Royal Mail, secure in public ownership, that is able to compete and lead internationally and that preserves the universal postal service; further notes the Conservatives» failure to invest in Royal Mail when they were in power in contrast with Labour's support for both Royal Mail and the Post Office; and notes that legislation on these issues will be subject to normal parliamentary procedures.»

Environmental regulators compounded the health problems by failing to acknowledge them and take steps to protect the public's health.

For example, the statutes may not empower regulators to require product sponsors to share in the burden of generating information about product safety, and may place the burden of proof on regulators to demonstrate that a product is unsafe before they can take action to protect the public.

Members of the Pulitzer Prize - winning team from InsideClimate News, together with the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel, reveal that as oil and gas booms in Texas, legislators and regulators are more intent on protecting the industry than residents who fear for their health from the air they breathe.

«The EPA and state regulators must set drinking water standards to protect the public, including those more susceptible to the toxic effects of chromium - 6,» the EWG report reads.

Singapore's internet regulator will block access to infidelity website AshleyMadison.com following a public... then it would not protect public morality,» said a letter to a newspaper forum.

Accordingly, it is virtually certain that the regulators will demand a containment building for a commercial tokamak reactor that will likely resemble what is currently required for fission reactors, so as to protect the public from normal - going superconducting magnet energy release.

Have government regulators been protecting the public welfare?

«The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) has acknowledged that the self - bonding program is no longer fit for purpose; regulators should act to protect the taxpaying public and demand that Peabody replace those bonds entirely,» said Rob Schuwerk, Senior Counsel for Carbon Tracker.

At the same time, regulators need to take a hard look at the balance between public protection and access to justice, removing unnecessary impediments to the latter while keeping in mind that the public is not protected when there's no access to justice.

If an attorney is able to meet his demands of practice despite his disability by making reasonable accommodations in his employment, then he will be protected by the ADA from discrimination in employment situations and can continue his craft; but if the disability causes harm to clients and the public, ethics regulators are not bound to allow that harm to continue simply because the attorney suffers from a disability.

What gives me apprehension (as well as being very counterproductive) is that a regulator may, in a well - intentioned effort to protect the BC public by mandating local server hosts, actually prohibit BC lawyers from using products that offer superior protection, whether that's encryption or something else.

«First of all, the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts have repeatedly emphasized the crucial role the professional regulators like the law society play in protecting the public interest, and in that connection, they've also emphasized the need of those professional regulators to be able to compel documents and information relevant to investigations from anyone possessed of them,» says Feder.

The public is benefited by a service that regulators prohibit in the name of protecting the consumer.

Something I've spoken out a little bit about was I think that there's a place for a regulator, even relating that activity to the public interest and protecting of the public interest to say provide more proactive of a device on Cloud services and maybe even approved configurations of equipment and encryption tools that lawyers could practically take off the shelf and use.

And again, as regulators, that is our mandate — to protect the public interest.

Justice Martin's dissent provided a ray of hope, and channeled the spirit of the late Chief Justice Laycraft in PanAmericana de Bienes y Servicios v Northern Badger Oil & Gas Limited, 1991 ABCA 181 (CanLII), championing the position that a regulator, when merely protecting the public, ought not to be considered a creditor.

The reason: to ensure the public interest is protected regardless of how lawyers or legal service providers seek to organize to deliver their services and to facilitate competition (read: provide scalable alternatives to law firms) and avoid any perception that the regulator is seeking to protect a monopoly for lawyers.

The regulators uphold the reputation of the profession as well as protecting the public and this is often the public interest element which justifies a regulator bringing such cases.

We don't want the regulators to come in and clamp down on the innovation, but at the same time we do need to protect the public from the bad apples,» said Williams.

Follow the industry commentary on the Canadian Regulators Task Force on Agency, keeping in mind that the goal is to protect the public, not lighten the burden of the practitioner.

Real estate licensees are the customers of the regulator as much as the public they protect.

A Message from Council Chair Marylou Leslie As the regulator of licensed real estate professionals, the Real Estate Council of BC's highest priority is to protect the public interest by enforcing licensee standards of conduct.

As the regulator of licensed real estate professionals, the Real Estate Council of BC's highest priority is to protect the public interest by enforcing licensee standards of conduct.