Image via PxHere form Introduction It took more than three years after the deadline to implement the CDSM Directive in Poland. The new copyright law, the amended Polish Copyright and Related Rights Act of 1994, entered into force in the early autumn of 2024. Poland is the last country, after Bulgaria, to implement the CDSM Directive. During … Read more
On February 13, AG Ćapeta delivered her Opinion on case C-417/23, Slagelse Almennyttige Boligselskab, Afdeling Schackenborgvænge. The case concerns the Danish laws on ‘ghettos’—areas where certain socio-economic indicators point to social problems and where, crucially, at least a 50% of the residents are classified as ‘non-Westerners’ or ‘descendants of non-Westerners’. The case, now pending final … Read more
Discussing the road to a $200 billion insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at the SIFMA ILS 2025 conference in Miami today, speakers stressed that considered deployment of capital at reasonable pricing and terms will be critical to continuing and perhaps accelerating the current growth trajectory.With catastrophe bond issuance on record-setting pace in 2025 so far and … Read more
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accompanied by Frank Alexis Abrego, Panamanian public security minister, right, arrives at Albrook airport in Panama City, Monday, February 3, 2025, to witness the boarding of people on a repatriation flight to Colombia. MARK SCHIEFELBEIN / AP On Sunday, February 2, Marco Rubio made his first trip as secretary of … Read more
We’ve learned a few more details about the new Silk Road Re Limited catastrophe bond transaction that is set to be issued out of Hong Kong, with the notes set to provide sponsor Taiping Reinsurance Company (Taiping Re) with a US $35 million source of three years of retrocessional protection.Yesterday, we reported that Taiping Re … Read more
