Business Law and Corporate Law

The "tokenization" of securities, i.e., the process of issuing or representing the ownership of traditional securities on a blockchain rather than through "book entry," aims to enhance operational and financial efficiencies for market participants.

The World Bank's Integrity Compliance Office (ICO), which is part of the Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency (INT), recently announced the first revisions in 15 years to its Integrity Compliance Guidelines, which the ICO uses when deciding whether to release companies from sanctions.

Corporate governance has moved well beyond compliance checklists, signature pages, and consents that once lived in a binder until year-end.