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Daily Compliance News: August 1, 2025, The All AI Edition
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
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Disparate Impact & Enforcement Rollbacks: What’s the Tea in L&E?
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Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
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On July 16, TradeStation Securities, Inc., a member firm of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC) to FINRA’s Department of Enforcement. This AWC...more
In what may be indicative of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s renewed focus on small business capital formation, one of the topics that the staff (the “Staff”) of the Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (the...more
In a significant turn of events on July 2, 2025, the SEC, SolarWinds Corp. and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Timothy Brown, announced through a joint letter to the U.S. District Court for the Southern...more
On June 10, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Pino v. Cardone Capital, LLC reversed in part the dismissal of claims brought under the Securities Act of 1933 based on statements made in connection with two...more
On July 10, 2025, citing a drive to increase transparency, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) published more than 200 complete response letters (CRLs) previously issued to companies that had submitted new drug...more
Non-GAAP financial measures are financial metrics that are not based on standard accounting principles but are presented by a company to provide additional insight into its performance. These measures often exclude certain...more
On Thursday, February 20, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it created a Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (“CETU”) to combat cyber-focused financial misconduct. The announcement reflects a...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published no-action guidance providing clarity to issuers relying on Rule 506(c) of Regulation D – an exempt offering pathway that permits issuers to publicly advertise an...more
In this issue of our monthly Securities Enforcement Roundup, we highlight top securities enforcement developments and cases from February 2025. In February 2025: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a...more
Section 4(a)(2) private placements can help companies raise capital without an Initial Public Offering (IPO). While exempt from registration, these offerings do require strict compliance to avoid legal pitfalls. Companies...more
Racing partnerships are of great value to the horse industry as they increase participation and bring new fans to the sport while lowering both costs and risk exposure....more
On February 11, 2025, Mark T. Uyeda, the acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, took action with respect to The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate Disclosures for Inventors rule, which was adopted...more
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
On January 27, 2025, US Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce gave the keynote address at the Northwestern Securities Regulation Institute in which she offered her personal views on how public...more
Normally, I don’t pay too much attention to the speeches that SEC Commissioners deliver because it’s the SEC Chair that wields the real clout. But given where we are with a new SEC Chair to be sworn in over the coming months...more
One of the most noticeable securities litigation trends of 2024 has been the significant increase in artificial intelligence-related fraud claims. With companies in virtually all industries touting their use of AI to drive...more
Under a new 2025 law, Massachusetts is one of the first in the nation to broaden its state False Claims Act (FCA) to require disclosures by investors and owners of health care entities. On January 8, 2025, Governor Maura...more
As in most industries, private fund sponsors are increasingly assessing and beginning to adopt artificial intelligence-powered tools to rapidly analyze large volumes of data, identify trends and patterns and to generally make...more
This week, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered the keynote address at the Northwestern Securities Regulation Institute in San Diego. Her theme: that public companies are “confronting a symptom of a larger societal...more
In a settled enforcement action, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Shift4 Payments, Inc. (“Shift4”), a payment processing company based in Pennsylvania, with failing to disclose payments made to immediate...more
On Tuesday, the SEC filed a complaint in the D.C. federal district court alleging that Elon Musk ignored the Section 13(d) beneficial ownership reporting deadline when, in March 2022, he acquired more than 5% of outstanding...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is increasing its scrutiny on artificial intelligence (AI)-related disclosures; therefore, companies must tread carefully as year-end reporting season approaches. Specifically,...more
In a significant development for the investment management industry, a large adviser agreed to pay a hefty $17.5 million civil penalty to settle charges with the SEC over misleading statements about its Environmental, Social,...more
SEC Penalizes Director for Misleading D&O Questionnaire Response - The SEC recently brought an enforcement action against a director for causing violations of the proxy rules by failing to disclose a close personal...more
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to take office, businesses and investors can expect significant shifts in the enforcement priorities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures...more