2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more
2/12/2025
/ Asset Management ,
Australia ,
Capital Markets ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Foreign Investment ,
Hong Kong ,
Investment Firms ,
Investment Funds ,
Investment Management ,
Investors ,
Japan ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Securities ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Singapore ,
Sustainability ,
Sustainable Finance
As new areas of the law emerge, driven in part by technology and the free flow of information, federal agencies are becoming more aggressive with a tried and true carrot-and-stick approach to law and regulatory enforcement. ...more
7/15/2024
/ Corporate Misconduct ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Government Agencies ,
Incentives ,
Pilot Programs ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ,
Securities Violations ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers ,
White Collar Crimes
On 27 June 2024, in a ruling much-anticipated by the securities industry and other similarly regulated industries, the Supreme Court (the Court) held in SEC v. Jarkesy that when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more
7/5/2024
/ Administrative Authority ,
Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Administrative Proceedings ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
Jury Trial ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ,
Securities Fraud ,
Seventh Amendment ,
Statutory Authority
On 16 October 2023, the Division of Examinations (Division) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its examination priorities for the 2024 fiscal year (the Report). The Division released this Report...more
11/3/2023
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Asset Management ,
Broker-Dealer ,
Capital Markets ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cybersecurity ,
Duty of Care ,
Enforcement Actions ,
ETFs ,
FinTech ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
Investment Firms ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On 30 March 2022, the Division of Examinations (the Division) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its examination priorities for the 2022 fiscal year. The Division highlighted five “significant focus...more
On October 8 and 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) held its annual “SEC Speaks” program in partnership with the Practicing Law Institute, this year in a virtual format and after a several-month...more
The Supreme Court recently resolved a circuit split affecting employers subject to the anti-retaliation provisions set forth in Section 21F of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”)....more
3/1/2018
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Digital Realty Trust Inc v Somers ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Internal Reporting ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Retaliation ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Violations ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
At the 34th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act held last week in Washington, D.C., industry executives, members of the defense bar, and regulators examined developments in the enforcement of the...more
12/8/2017
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Corruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
White Collar Crimes
On Wednesday, May 24, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sitting en banc, heard arguments in Raymond J. Lucia Cos. v. SEC, a case in which it is tasked with deciding whether the...more
In the final days of 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denounced the constitutional authority of the five administrative law judges (“ALJs”) who preside over contested administrative proceedings brought by...more