Some senior UK bankers argue – in private, naturally – that the Bank of England is overdoing things by introducing a regime that could see bonuses clawed back seven years after their award in cases of misconduct.
The new framework at least introduces a regime of much larger penalties for privacy violations — beefing up enforcement with maximum fines of up to 4% of a company's global annual turnover.
It introduces a regime of fines of up to €50M for social media platforms that fail to remove illegal hate speech after a complaint (within 24 hours in straightforward cases; or within seven days where evaluation of content is more difficult).
If the FDA allows clinical trials, she warned, it would introduce "a regime of high-tech consumer eugenics" and represent "the first time a government body had okayed genetic changes for humans and their descendants".
He then introduced a harsh regime requiring all asylum-seekers to be processed on remote Pacific Ocean islands, and providing only temporary visas for those granted refugee status.
Even after 1988 — when the army crushed a nationwide democratic uprising and introduced a kleptocratic regime with no pretense at socialism — one would find on the sidewalks of Yangon heaps of secondhand books translated from Russian, including by Gorky.
The FSA has now introduced a new regime for PPI by demanding the insurance cannot be sold until at least seven days after a loan has been granted and borrowers need to be informed the insurance was an extra.
"Instead of dealing with the rising benefits bill by tackling low pay and building more affordable homes, the Tories introduced a new regime of benefit sanctions which brought a culture of fear into jobcentres, pushing people into extreme hardship and in many cases out on to the streets," she said.
On the other hand, the new blood test for human growth hormone, introduced by WADA with much fanfare at the 2004 Olympics, has yet to identify an abuser, perhaps because it does not work a possibility that should worry anyone who wants to stop drug cheats in any sport.Baseball introduced a tougher regime on drugs only after a severe dressing-down during hearings in Congress last spring.
As part of our recent disability-hate-crime action plan, a best-practice model is now available to aid prosecutors in decisions related to disability hate crime and we have just introduced an assurance regime to improve the quality and consistency of case handling.
