You cannot tell the story of New York without our small businesses. Yet, our City has long made it too hard for these same businesses to open their doors, and to keep them open. With today's executive order, we will bring that chapter to an end, instead delivering relief to businesses from the fines and fees that drive up their costs.
UK ministers are facing renewed pressure to tighten restrictions on gambling advertising, after new polling revealed strong public support for a far tougher approach to promotions and sponsorship. Gambling regulation has been the subject of increasingly heated debate in recent years, with governments introducing tighter controls on online slots, higher industry taxes and a statutory levy to fund addiction treatment. However, advertising rules have remained largely untouched, despite the scale of promotional activity rising sharply since market deregulation in 2005.
The initiative includes European Business Wallets, which the European Commission (EC) said will offer companies a single digital identity to simplify paperwork and make it much easier to do business across EU member states. Valdis Dombrovskis, commissioner for economy and productivity, said: "Today's proposal represents an important first step in our digital simplification agenda, aiming to create a more favourable business environment for European companies."
Contrary to popular narrative, Europe is not short of cash. In aggregate, European households save $1.4 trillion a year-substantially higher than the $800 billion figure for U.S. households. According to data platform Dealroom, European investors in 2025 were sitting on $31 billion of dry powder, waiting to be invested. But where American capital is one of the U.S. economy's great strengths, famously accelerating business growth there, Europe's capital doesn't deliver in nearly the same way.
It aims to expand affordable housing supply by providing states and local governments with greater flexibility to fund housing development and preservation. America is in the midst of a housing crisis as families struggle to live the American dream due to the shortage of millions of homes, said Flood. The HOME program is a federal program that builds housing supply, but it has previously been weighed down by regulatory burdens that make it hard to build housing.
The privacy protection law bans trigger leads, a long-criticized practice that allows mortgage applicants' data to be sold to competing lenders. Broeksmit reflected on the grueling process of working on the trigger leads bill for two years and getting it to pass in bipartisan measures. He officially bid adieu to trigger leads during his remarks. The VA reform law, Broeksmit shared, averted a potential foreclosure crisis for tens of thousands of veterans after key loan relief programs expired.
The much-criticised watchdog that scrutinises the jobs UK ministers can take after leaving office will be formally scrapped on Monday as part of a wider shake-up of the ethics structure in government. The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), described by critics as fundamentally toothless, has been closed, a Cabinet Office announcement said, with its functions taken over by two existing regulators. At the same time, a new organisation called the Ethics and Integrity Commission will oversee the work of a series of other regulators,
There's plenty to be alarmed about. Born in the heat of US president Donald Trump's trade war, and out of the scramble to assert some measure of economic independence in an uncertain world, Bill C-5 is dressed in the language of efficiency. Should a mine or pipeline be judged vital to Canada, the nation won't wait. That speed comes, in part, from creating a single, expedited regulatory process.
In 528 AD, Emperor Justinian inherited a Roman legal system drowning in centuries of accumulated laws, conflicting edicts, and contradictory jurisprudence. His solution was radical: commission the Corpus Juris Civilis, a comprehensive codification and streamlining of Roman law across all provinces. Over 14 months, Justinian's commission reduced approximately 3 million lines of legal text to just 150,000, laying the foundation for the Western legal canon.
Reeves who in July claimed regulators were a boot on the neck of business cheered her recent decisions to sack the chair of the competitions watchdog, shut down the payments regulator, and severely constrain the Financial Ombudsman Service, which UK banks have long lobbied to curtail. However, she said there was still more to do. I want to take out more regulators, there's still too many, Reeves told investment firms gathered in London at the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) summit
The 125-page report, entitled " Simplifying Research Regulations and Policies: Optimizing American Science," lays out a three-pronged framework to guide a cohesive national strategy toward implementing more economical regulations. Those prongs include harmonizing regulations and requirements across federal and state agencies and research institutions, ensuring that regulatory requirements match the risk related to the project, and using technology to make regulation-compliance processes more efficient.
Businesses large and small, across the UK, will be listening hard to the Chancellor's speech - to see if it can truly spark much needed investment reform.
The last four years has been marked by significant reform. I am looking forward to working even more closely with Nikhil so there is no let up in the pace of change, and to ensure we have the right relationships, domestically and internationally, to deliver our ambitious strategy.
The Australian crypto industry has called on the newly reelected Labor government to urgently make digital asset legislation a top priority to ensure Australia doesn't fall further behind global markets.
To succeed in transforming federal procurement, it is essential to learn from past initiatives like the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, emphasizing collaboration and non-partisanship.
