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Compliance Tip of the Day: Rethinking Corporate AI Governance Through Design Intelligence
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
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Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 2, Oversight
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 1, Introduction
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Treating Compliance Like an Asset
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Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 5 – Monitoring Activities
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 4 - Control Information and Communication
Everything Compliance: Episode 156, To Document or Not Edition
The withdrawal aligns with the SEC’s “back to basics” approach, but it does not preclude scrutiny of ESG in asset managers’ strategies, marketing, and fund documentation....more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission held its annual SEC Speaks conference on May 19 and 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. On the second day of the conference, the Staff of the Division of Enforcement hosted two panel...more
The SEC published updated Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on the filing of Schedules 13D and 13G/Shareholder Engagement....more
Ropes & Gray closely monitors the rapidly evolving ESG landscape, helping asset managers and institutional investors navigate the dynamic ESG regulatory environment and keep on top of emerging ESG trends and industry best...more
Welcome to our December 20243 Regulatory Roundup, where we provide practical advice on the latest regulatory headlines. We start this issue with the SEC’s 2024 enforcement results, which fell somewhat short after its 2023...more
Most compliance officers struggle to determine whether they are conducting enough testing to satisfy their obligations under the Advisers Act. In its release adopting Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-7, the SEC stated that an...more
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles garnering increased attention in corporate circles in recent years, there has been an accompanying rise in demand for analytical products that evaluate companies’...more
On April 5, 2024, after an eight-day trial, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California returned a verdict for the Securities and Exchange Commission in its first “shadow trading” case after...more
Introduction - On Wednesday, 6 March 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved its highly anticipated final rules on “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” by a...more
Investment advisers offering funds in more than one country are accustomed to adapting to different regulatory requirements. However, the challenges presented by the global regulation of environmental, social, and governance...more
The NY Climate Week conference took place during the week of 18 September 2023, bringing together international leaders from business and governments. During the conference the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial...more
On 3 May 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted amendments to modernize the disclosure requirements relating to repurchases of an issuer’s equity securities, including requiring issuers to provide...more
Continuing its focus on the fund industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management will hold its inaugural Conference on Emerging Trends in Asset Management on May 19, 2023, which will be...more
On 26 October 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rule and form amendments (the Final Rules) representing major reforms to: 1) shareholder reports for open-end mutual funds and exchange-traded...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - On 25 May 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a series of amendments (the Proposed Amendments) to rules and reporting forms, which purport to provide investors with additional...more
On 25 May, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) introduced a proposal to amend certain rules and forms under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) and the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) threw down the gauntlet after President Biden’s election and asserted its interest in greater regulation and policing of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. One...more
On July 7, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Asset Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) adopted recommendations developed by the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Subcommittee related to ESG...more
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently proposed its Annual Regulatory Agenda, which recommends enhancing the rules requiring corporate disclosures of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”)...more
Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has asked the SEC staff to consider issuing new rules that would require fund managers to disclose the criteria and underlying data used in marketing...more
The FCA is consulting on extending its rules to standard listed issuers. On 22 June 2021, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP21/18) on extending the application of the existing climate-related disclosure...more
On April 9, 2021, the SEC’s Division of Examinations (“EXAMS”) published a Risk Alert summarizing its observations from recent examinations of investment advisers, registered investment companies, and private funds engaged in...more
On Friday, the SEC’s Asset Management Advisory Committee met to discuss various matters, including possible recommendations to the SEC regarding—what else?—ESG. The latest version of subcommittee draft recommendations do not...more
A new European regime on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial sector will come into force from March 2021, after first being announced in 2018 during the European Commission’s Action Plan on Sustainable...more
As investors drive demand for investment products focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, fund managers have increasingly offered ESG-focused or “sustainable investing” funds. However, a recent speech...more