Legal and Regulatory Developments Archives

Legal and Regulatory Developments

Maryland digital advertising tax; MD law identified at WHF Jan. 27th program on state issues emerging in 2021

Please find Washington Post article detailing the lawsuit brought by big tech firms and other business groups to challenge the recently enacted digital advertising tax law in Maryland. See here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/18/amazon-facebook-google-maryland-lawsuit-tax/ I moderated a panel with the following speakers: Toni Bellissimo, past President of WHF and Megan Howell for Women in Housing and Finance. Frank […]

Upcoming online program on Jan. 27th at noon on 2021 state legislative issues in the banking/financial service sector

The Women in Housing & Finance group in Washington, D.C. is hosting an educational program for its members on 2021 state issues. I am moderating the program with presentations by Frank Salinger, former General Counsel of AFSA and state government relations expert along with presentations by Megan Howell, a state government relations expert at PayPal, […]

More Compliance, Policy, Regulatory developments related to Fintech

Professor Bob Ledig from the George Mason Scalia law school with Angela Wilson, blockchain expert/guru and myself (Timothy McTaggart) conducted a training session on fintech developments. We made our presentation to the legal staff of a federal financial services regulatory agency on December 7, 2020. Ledig addressed the permissibility of fintech activities for financial companies […]

Are you ready for some (political) football…in 2024?

I am using the popular Sunday night football intro of, “Are you ready for some football?”, to raise the issue of whether the country is ready to start thinking about 2024 already. We are not out of 2020 yet, and Trump has yet to offer a concession speech to President-elect Biden but you can rest […]

Who are the three most important Senators in Washington?

With the historic 2020 election still moving along with final vote tallies showing victory by Joe Biden and the nearly finished counting for other Senate and House seats, there still remains the outcome of the two Georgia Senate seats. In both races, the Republican candidate did not win with 50% of the vote so under […]

Power of Presidential Incumbency; Biden breaks the streak of two term Presidential administrations

The historic 2020 Presidential election with a Joe Biden victory will break the streak of three consecutive Presidential administrations of back to back terms–Bill Clinton-1992/1996; George W. Bush-2000/2004 and Barack Obama-2008/2012. The last time that happened in U.S. history was in the era of the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson elected as President was followed by […]

Corporate Secretaries and Technology by Tim McTaggart, with co-author credit to Angela Wilson

On September 1, 2020, Angela Angelovska-Wilson from DLx Law, and Tim McTaggart presented a training session on Corporate Secretaries and Technology. Topics Covered: Initial Documentation/Traditional Role of the Corporate Secretary; Ongoing Data Use Protocols; Special Data Protocols; Issues Arising from the Covid-19 Pandemic; and Special Factors affecting the Corporate Secretary and the client audience involved […]

Webinar program presentation at GMU Scalia school of law on fintech developments and the pandemic impact

I also posted this on my LinkedIn page. Very interesting program from last week. Great speakers from government, industry, private law practice and from the academy. Here’s the link: https://sls.gmu.edu/pfrt/events/event/fintech-pushing-past-the-pandemic/

Expanded Role of Corporate Secretary and Technology Issues

Earlier this month, I spent 6 hours providing CLE instruction online with my friends/colleagues, Prof. Bob Ledig at GMU Scalia law school and Angela Wilson, a fintech expert practicing law in the District. Our program was to an internal legal division training audience at a major federal bank regulatory agency. In future posts, I will […]

2020 Presidential election, crystal ball by Salinger and McTaggart

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8XCK5ad-trzVHRUY0V6UFM2T1JGNWNHdzFPcGxsZDJ6SnBv/view?ts=5e177514 Please find attached a joint effort by Frank Salinger and myself regarding the upcoming Presidential primary season, and the 2020 election in the Fall. Hope that you enjoy it. We have added appropriate disclaimers but remember these are our personal views and predictions and do not reflect the views of clients or other organizations […]