No Password Required: Former Lead Attorney at U.S. Cyber Command, Cyber Law Strategist, and Appreciator of ‘Mad Men’ Hats
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Compliance Tip of the Day: Rethinking Corporate AI Governance Through Design Intelligence
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
SkadBytes Podcast | Tech’s Shifting Landscape: Five Trends Shaping the Conversation
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FCPA Compliance Report: Ethical Challenges in AI, Data Protection, and Sports with Andre Paris
We get Privacy for work: The Privacy Pitfalls of a Remote Workforce
No Password Required: From AOL to Award-Winning Cuisine to High-Stakes Hacking
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Exploring Future Regulatory Trends and Compliance Strategies with Rory McGrath
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Bridging the Gap: Effective Risk Communication in Compliance with Rob Clark, Jr.
Privacy for Risk Management: Bridge the Business, Technology and Compliance Gaps
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Inside Behavioral Insights: Tom Hardin on Compliance at #RiskNYC
Innovation in Compliance: Real-Time Fraud Prevention Strategies for Financial Loss Prevention with Vince Walden
Rethinking Records Retention
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The SEC’s amended Regulation S-P, adopted last year, will soon enhance data privacy protections for broker-dealers, investment companies, registered investment advisors, and transfer agents. The updated rule requires these...more
Welcome to “SERC’ling Up,” your resource for staying ahead in today’s fast-evolving financial landscape. This newsletter delivers perspectives on the latest enforcement trends, regulatory updates and high-stakes developments...more
On May 15, 2024 the SEC issued Release Nos. 34-100155; IA-6604 (the “Adopting Release”) providing for amendments to the safeguards and disposal rules of Regulation S-P (the “Amendments”). The compliance dates for the...more
On January 8, 2025, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its Final Rule to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States...more
FINRA’s Office of Financial Innovation published a report on “The Metaverse and the Implications for the Securities Industry” to raise awareness among its member firms and the broader securities industry and seek industry...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has announced the adoption of amendments to Regulation S-P (“Amendments”) to modernize and enhance the rules that govern the treatment of consumers’ nonpublic personal...more
Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more
The SEC remains laser-focused on cybersecurity, with the agency recently reopening the comment period on a sweeping rule for investment advisers and investment companies. In addition, the SEC issued proposed enhancements to...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the Proposal) on March 15 that would require SEC-regulated investment advisers, investment companies, and broker dealers to provide...more
Additional Requirements to Go Into Effect June 9, 2023 - As we discussed in our March 3 Advisory, on October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revisions (the 2021 Revisions) to its information...more
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler made remarks on Jan. 24, 2022, at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law's Annual Securities Regulation Institute regarding the SEC's work to improve...more
On August 30, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that eight broker-dealers and/or investment advisers will pay civil monetary penalties to resolve enforcement actions arising from cybersecurity...more
The coronavirus crisis is far from over, and compliance professionals still need every scrap of guidance that regulators can provide about how to run compliance programs in these difficult times. So when the Securities and...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) last week published its observations from the first five months operating the SEC’s national examination program during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is the latest...more
CYBERSECURITY - SEC Issues Warning for Advisors and Broker-Dealers on Increased Ransomware Attacks - On July 10, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), through its Office of Compliance Inspections and...more
With more people working remotely than ever before in light of COVID-19, firms in the private equity and hedge fund space should review their Regulation S-P privacy and information-safeguarding policies to ensure they are...more
Kestra Investment Services LLC (“Kestra”) was fined $125,000 by FINRA for sharing personal customer data with a third-party vendor. Kestra had engaged the vendor to assist newly hired brokers with the transfer of customer...more
Background - On January 27, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations ("OCIE") published its Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations. Cybersecurity and data...more
On January 27, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) announced its most recent Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations. This report highlights specific practices that have been, and can be...more
It should not be surprising to anyone that cybersecurity and data protection remain top priorities for regulators of the financial services industry. Indeed, cybersecurity has been regularly identified as a key priority by...more
Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) took a break from its recent focus on digital assets and the Best Interest fiduciary standard to publish a Risk Alert encouraging investment advisers and...more
• The SEC released a Risk Alert summarizing key areas in which it continues to see compliance deficiencies related to Regulation S-P, the primary SEC rule regarding privacy notices and safeguard policies of investment...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations...more
The SEC has again signaled that now is the time for investment advisers and broker-dealers to get serious about compliance with Reg. S-P. For years, the SEC’s examination priorities have included a focus on cybersecurity...more
I am hardly saying that SEC Regulation S-P is the sexiest of regulations. I mean, has any customer is history actually read one of those exciting statement stuffers that discloses in some dense font a BD’s privacy policy?...more