The UnitedHealth deal may face a regulatory challenge because of Brazilian restrictions on foreign ownership of hospitals.
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For the companies that host and distribute that data across the globe, however, it's a large regulatory challenge.
In any regulatory challenge or crisis, businesses have to make separate assessments of each public entity with which they must deal.
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To me, the real regulatory challenge is the level of those concessions and the amount of management attention required by the approval process.
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"The clear trend towards overlapping regulatory initiatives will continue to challenge the mortgage industry, " said Andrew Sandler, co-chairman of BuckleySandler LLP, a law firm that represents banks.
So we shouldn't be spooked by this notion that, well, is now the time to take seriously in an intelligent way, not in a knee-jerk way, the challenge of financial regulatory reform so that you don't have banks that are too big to fail and you're not putting taxpayers at risk and you're not putting the economy at risk -- now is the time to do it.
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"The biggest challenge is to get regulatory approval to start flying, (but) we are not going to race with anyone, only with safety, " he added.
That "is a regulatory, compliance and anti-money-laundering challenge, " says Jeff Howkins, chief executive of Upromise Investments, a unit of Sallie Mae.
It is now up to the media owners to show they are willing to take up the challenge of creating this new self-regulatory model.
As U.S. companies expand across the globe they are faced with the challenge of operating within a collage of complex regulatory and cultural contexts.
More so, the challenge remains on a cross-national domain level of what regulatory and compliance environments even exist.
But add to this, here, very significant cross-cultural management and staff issues, problems of distance, and regulatory systems that are often purposed to different ends, and you have a leadership challenge indeed for firms that venture down this path.
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His immediate challenge is to overturn the Sept. 23 ruling by Curtis Wagner , chief judge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, that El Paso restricted the flow of gas into California in late 2000 and early 2001.
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