Laws and Regulations

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the final agenda for the Overcoming Obstacles to Small Business Lending Forum scheduled for Jan. 13.

The watchdog hopes that the office will help to reduce the number of unsafe products reaching the U.S. market.

The Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), the promotional products industry’s only independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products, has awarded accreditation to two additional suppliers:

Export-related loans to small businesses approved under the Jobs Act provisions have reached nearly $110 million as of Dec. 31, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced today.

It's standard marketing: pitch your product to the most easily persuadable.

By a vote of 3 to 2, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) approved a final interpretive rule defining children's product.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, introduced a new web-based tool that will enable the public to search for and have easy access to health and safety studies on industrial chemicals.

With small business owners and entrepreneurs in traditionally underserved communities continuing to face challenges accessing capital, the U.S. Small Business Administration today announced two new initiatives aimed at increasing SBA-backed loans to small businesses in these markets.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission finalized a new rule Nov. 24 that abandons both consumers and safety. Trial lawyers and unscrupulous business competitors, though, made out like bandits.

On Monday, November 29, the Senate voted against two proposals to repeal the new Form 1099 reporting requirements. As a result of the new healthcare law, beginning in 2012, all businesses will be required to complete IRS Form 1099 for any vendor from which it purchased more than $600