A US software company that serves users in the European Union without any office there usually meets three separate questions about representation, because the GDPR, the Digital Services Act and the AI Act each contain their own rule and each has its own trigger. An EU representative under the GDPR is a contact point for […]

A US technology company that serves users across the European Union can face questions from data protection authorities in many Member States at once, and the GDPR’s one-stop-shop mechanism exists to reduce that exposure. Where a company has a main establishment in the Union, one supervisory authority, known as the lead supervisory authority, takes the […]

Americans meet more friction than most applicants when they open an account in Cyprus, and the cause is FATCA, the US law under which foreign financial institutions identify and report accounts held by US persons. Cyprus signed a Model 1 intergovernmental agreement with the United States in December 2014, which means Cypriot banks and other […]