Topic: Data

Healthcare providers are rapidly adopting AI for clinical and operational uses, often involving protected health information that is governed by HIPAA’s Privacy Rule.

With growing demand and government support for data center development in Türkiye, we explore the key legal and financial considerations.

The Australian Government will prioritise proposals based on national interest, the energy transition, water usage, workforce development, and research and innovation.

This article examines how Australian financial regulators approach artificial intelligence, summarising key guidance from ASIC, APRA, OAIC and AUSTRAC and setting out practical compliance considerations for firms, boards and executives.

Generative AI is quickly becoming part of everyday legal work, but recent court decisions show it can also create real risks for attorney client privilege.

The video gaming industry is an alluring target for cyber criminals. In response, regulators in various jurisdictions have sought to bring video gaming into scope of critical infrastructure legislation or have adopted sector-specific rules.

Once considered a niche segment within real estate and infrastructure, data centres have rapidly matured into a fully established asset class in their own right, driven by their role as critical digital infrastructure.

The financial services sector is becoming increasingly reliant on cloud service providers (CSPs) to fulfil its growing data processing and storage needs. Financial services providers in the United States have reportedly had the highest levels of adoption, operating 54 percent of their workloads in the cloud; and according to the European Central Bank, banks spent 13.5 percent more on cloud outsourcing in 2024 than in 2023.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is currently consulting on its draft guidelines on the sound management of third party risk (Draft Guidelines), which are intended to replace the 2019 guidelines on outsourcing arrangements (2019 Guidelines).

Financial regulators globally emphasise the importance of financial entities being operationally resilient, which includes the ability to manage and recover from disruptions caused by their service providers. The topic receives significant attention in the financial services sector because the sector is regulated, with the aim of promoting financial system stability.