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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to reverse an unwritten policy whereby it blocked the IPOs of companies that want to ban investor class action lawsuits in their charters and bylaws. The agency said it would allow companies seeking to go public to require that shareholders resolve claims of fraud or other false statements through arbitration rather than court litigation. "The commission is not a merit regulator that decides whether a company's particular method of resolving disputes with its shareholders is good or bad," SEC Chair Paul Atkins said. CalPERS, the California public pension fund, said forced arbitration would "diminish the deterrent effect" of class actions. Ann Lipton, a former class action litigator, said the change would damage the public interest, observing that lawsuits can expose corporate misconduct among other matters.
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Jon Cunliffe, the Bank of England's deputy governor for financial stability from 2014 to 2024, has said putative US allies are now weighing whether President Donald Trump's administration could one day disrupt their payments systems to exert diplomatic pressure. "What you've seen now with Greenland and Canada and other areas is that this particular administration appears to be as likely to use all the levers it has against jurisdictions that you would traditionally think of as its allies as its opponents . . . I've heard it from people in the payments network: 'Do I want to use the US system because it might now be weaponised against me?'"
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