Financial Institutions, Data Security, Broker-Dealer

Compliance Deadlines to Implement Significant Amendments to Regulation S-P Are Fast Approaching: Key Implications for Covered...

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 8/5/2025

On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted sweeping amendments to Regulation S-P, which governs the privacy of nonpublic consumer personal and financial information for a broad range of financial...more

New SEC Cybersecurity Compliance Deadlines are Coming: What 5 Things Should Covered Institutions Do to Prepare?

Fisher Phillips on 6/30/2025

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

Off-Channel Communications: How Financial Services Organizations Can Address Regulators’ Latest Target

J.S. Held on 3/13/2023

As a number of recent headlines demonstrate, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators have fined and penalized employers and employees in the financial services industry for non-compliance with...more

In Principle - 10 Things Authorised Firms Need To Know For 2019

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/31/2019

In the 2018 edition of this publication, we ended the introduction with the line, “We can only hope that we will enter 2019 with greater certainty than 2018 as to how the regulatory landscape will look.” Unfortunately,...more

SEC’s Increased Cybersecurity Enforcement and How to Reduce Your Risks

Perkins Coie on 9/29/2015

The SEC announced last week that an investment adviser had agreed to settle charges that it failed to take required steps to protect against and respond effectively to a cybersecurity breach. The action comes on the heels of...more

The SEC OCIE Announces Increased Scrutiny of Broker-Dealers’ and Investment Advisers’ Cybersecurity Programs

BakerHostetler on 9/29/2015

On September 15, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a National Exam Program Risk Alert (2015 Risk Alert) to provide broker-dealers and investment...more

OCIE’s 2015 Cybersecurity Examination Initiative

K&L Gates LLP on 9/24/2015

On September 15, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) released a Risk Alert (the “2015 Risk Alert”) that announced its second round of cybersecurity...more

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