News & Analysis as of

Anti-Money Laundering Cybersecurity Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

Carlton Fields

FINRA Issues 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report

Carlton Fields on

On January 28, 2025, FINRA issued its 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, providing a detailed look into FINRA’s current regulatory oversight of member firms and their registered personnel....more

McGuireWoods LLP

FINRA’s 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report: Playing the Hits, With Some Important Additions

McGuireWoods LLP on

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA’s) 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report provides member firms with key insights and observations from its regulatory operations programs. The report covers fixtures such...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dual registrant regulatory roundup - February 2025

Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more

Goodwin

FINRA Publishes 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report

Goodwin on

On January 28, 2025, FINRA published its 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the “Report”) as “an up-to-date, evolving resource or library of information for firms” that highlights specific industry trends, new...more

Bracewell LLP

FINRA Facts and Trends: January 2024

Bracewell LLP on

Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. We dedicate...more

Carlton Fields

FINRA Issues 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report

Carlton Fields on

FINRA issued its 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report on January 9, 2024, providing a glimpse into FINRA’s current regulatory oversight of member firms and their registered personnel in 27 topic areas....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FINRA’s 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report: Select Observations

FINRA recently published its 90-page 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (Report) providing member firms with insight into six primary topics: Financial Crimes, Crypto Asset Development, Firm Operations, Communications...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 5 SEC Developments (October 2023)

Morrison & Foerster LLP on

Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month we examine: • Fraud and internal control failure charges against...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Management Update - November 2023

...SEC Adopts Amendments to Fund Names Rule - On September 20, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Fund Names Rule) as well...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Broker Dealer Regulatory Digest - November 2023

Editor's Note - The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency,...more

A&O Shearman

2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program

A&O Shearman on

On January 10, 2023, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) issued its 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the “Report”). The Report, which is a more comprehensive version of FINRA’s...more

BakerHostetler

FINRA Signals Expanded Enforcement Priorities in Annual Report

BakerHostetler on

The 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program was published on Jan. 10, 2023. In a statement accompanying the Report, Greg Ruppert, executive vice president of FINRA’s Member Supervision organization,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Financial Crimes Makes Debut in FINRA Annual Priorities Preview

FINRA punctuated its annual post-New Year’s Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the “Report”), by including a new target category “Financial Crimes.” The inclusion of this category is noteworthy not...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

FINRA Releases 2023 Report on Its Examination and Risk Monitoring Program

On January 10, 2023, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) released its 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the “Report), available at:  2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and...more

Bracewell LLP

FINRA Facts and Trends - September 2022

Bracewell LLP on

Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This...more

McGuireWoods LLP

FINRA Releases 2022 Report on Examination and Risk Monitoring Program

McGuireWoods LLP on

In February 2022, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Examinations and Risk Monitoring Program. This annual document aims to provide guidance to the broker-dealer industry....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Exam Time: FINRA Releases its 2022 Report on its Examination and Risk Monitoring Program

A common phrase to abide by in the New Year is “out with the old, in with the new.” FINRA’s 2022 Report on its Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the “Report”), however, contains a combination of old and new priorities....more

Burr & Forman

FINRA’S 2022 Report on Examination & Risk Monitoring Program

Burr & Forman on

Over the last couple of decades, the securities self-regulatory organization FINRA (f/k/a NASD) informs its membership each year of what compliance risks are noted by its examination program. Those are risks firms should...more

Bracewell LLP

Government Enforcement and Investigations Year-In-Review: The Administration Has Moved Its Pieces into Place

Bracewell LLP on

On Monday, President Biden released the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption, which details how the United States will work “domestically and internationally, with governmental and non-governmental partners, to...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FINRA Issues Guidance Encouraging Firms To Prepare for Forthcoming Anti-Money Laundering Rules

On October 8, 2021, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a Regulatory Notice urging its member firms (i.e., broker-dealers) to consider how they will incorporate the U.S. Treasury Department’s...more

King & Spalding

SEC and FINRA Emphasize Cybersecurity, AML, and Reg BI as Key Areas of Focus for Broker-Dealer Examinations in 2021

King & Spalding on

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have each published their annual examination priorities for 2021, signaling areas of scrutiny that broker-dealers should...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FINRA Issues Comprehensive Guidance On Compliance And Risk Monitoring

The Financial Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) recently issued a comprehensive report on compliance issues noted in its examination program (the “Report”). The Report is intended to assist broker-dealers in identifying and...more

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

FINRA Publishes 2021 Enforcement Priorities and Exam Findings Report

Earlier this week, FINRA published its 2021 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the “Report”). The Report, which combines FINRA’s prior publications on regulatory priorities and examination findings,...more

Burr & Forman

Cyber Still Atop Exam Priorities

Burr & Forman on

FINRA held its bi-annual Cybersecurity Conference in January and recently published five take-away real-world experiences from the conference...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

2020 SEC and FINRA Examination Priorities and Cybersecurity Observations

During January of 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued two reports that highlight the work and priorities of OCIE: on January 7, 2020, OCIE issued...more

66 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 3

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide