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Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 707: How Courts Would Screen Machine-Generated Evidence Offered Without an Expert
Aleksandr Komarov · Aug 26, 2026
Legaltech News
How Technology-Assisted Review Actually Works — and What Rule 26 and Rule 502 Require Before You Deploy It
William Elliott · Aug 24, 2026
Digital
CFPB's Section 1033 Open Banking Rule: What Its 2026 Compliance Stay Means for Data Providers
Naomi Bergman · Aug 21, 2026A federal court has stayed the tiered compliance dates for …
Compliance
FinCEN's SAR Rule Explained: The 30-Day Deadline, the $5,000 Threshold, and What Changed in 2025
Petra Vogel · Aug 19, 2026A joint FAQ from FinCEN and four federal banking regulators …
What the CFPB's Personal Financial Data Rights Rule Requires, and When Compliance Deadlines Hit
Aleksandr Komarov · Aug 10, 2026
Utah's AI Policy Act: Disclosure Duties When Regulated Professions Use Generative Tools
William Elliott · Jul 21, 2026The first state statute to regulate generative AI in professional …
Compliance
What NYDFS Part 500 Requires After the 2023 Amendments: 72-Hour Reporting and the 2025 Deadlines
Petra Vogel · Aug 15, 2026New York's amended cybersecurity regulation 23 NYCRR 500 imposes a 72-hour ransomware reporting duty and phase-in obligations that conclude in November 2025.
ECOA Adverse Action Notices When AI Influences Credit Decisions: Circular 2022-03 in Practice
Petra Vogel · Jul 25, 2026Regulation B requires specific, accurate reasons for every adverse action — and the CFPB said in 2022 that model complexity is not an excuse.
Digital
Post-Quantum Migration for Financial Infrastructure: NIST FIPS 203 and 204 Timelines That Matter
Naomi Bergman · Jul 30, 2026The standards landed in August 2024; the threat is harvest-now-decrypt-later; and the migration runs on a cryptography inventory most institutions have not finished.
Consent Receipts and Audit Logs: Designing Exam-Ready Evidence for Open-Banking Authorization
Naomi Bergman · Jul 7, 2026The authorization to share data is now a consumer right with a lifecycle — and the artifact that proves its history is the exam exhibit nobody built by accident.
EU AI Act Obligations for General-Purpose Models Took Effect August 2: What Legaltech Vendors Selling Into Europe Must Track
The AI Act's transparency and copyright duties for general-purpose AI models became binding on August 2, 2025, reaching US legaltech and regtech vendors with EU customers.
Verifying Authority in the AI Research Era: The Citator Discipline That Still Decides Cases
Generative research tools answer questions; the citator answers whether the answer is still law — and the sanctions era made skipping the second step expensive.
Judicial Standing Orders on Generative AI: The Filing Checklist Nobody Standardized
Hundreds of federal judges now publish their own AI-filing rules — varying in scope, disclosure, and certification — and litigation teams keep a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction checklist because no one else will.
How a Federal Rule Becomes Binding: The Notice-and-Comment Timeline Compliance Teams Should Plan Around
From Unified Agenda entry to effective date, the Administrative Procedure Act sets the floor and Executive Order 12866 and the Congressional Review Act set the calendar. A practitioner's map of the stages that create obligations and the exceptions that compress them.
Fed's Payment-Account Proposal Draws Industry Comments: Direct Settlement Access for Fintechs Advances
The May 20 proposal for a clearing-and-settlement-purpose account — distinct from a master account — moved through its comment cycle in July, and the industry's letters show the fault lines.
App-Store Privacy Labels and Data-Broker Registries: The Representation Risk in Fintech SDKs
The label on the store page is a legal statement about your SDK stack — and both regulators and class counsel now read it against the traffic.
Micro-Disclosure Evidence: Proving What the App Actually Showed, Screen by Screen
Regulators and courts used to ask what your disclosure said — the app era's question is what version of which screen this customer saw, and the answer is an engineering artifact.
Conversational and Voice Interfaces in Banking Apps: UDAAP Lessons From the Chatbot Era
A Canadian airline paid for its chatbot's invented discount policy — the lesson traveled, and financial apps now treat conversational interfaces as regulated speech.
Alternative App Distribution After Epic and the DMA: What Fintech Distribution Maps Look Like Now
The gatekeepers' exclusivity broke first in the courts, then by statute in Europe — and finance apps now design distribution strategies against a three-map world.