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On August 7, 2025, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Annuity Suitability (A) Working Group issued draft safe harbor regulatory guidance with a comment period that ends on September 22, 2025. The draft...more
Situation Overview: The SEC’s Crypto Task Force is advancing its exploration of regulatory frameworks for digital asset custody. What: The SEC hosted its third roundtable, Know Your Custodian, focusing on challenges and...more
The new presidential administration began on January 20, 2025, and change came quickly to many federal agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On Inauguration Day, Paul S. Atkins was nominated...more
On Friday, April 25, 2025, newly sworn in SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins spoke for the first time in his new role at the SEC’s third roundtable in its series discussing crypto asset regulation called Know Your Custodian: Key...more
In addition to basic blocking and tackling, compliance officers often have the thankless job of performing the annual review of their compliance program required by Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-7....more
Private Fund Rules Cancelled, Survey Says Marketing Rule is a Lot of Work and the Intersection of Regulation BI and Investment Adviser’s Fiduciary Duty - Welcome to our June Regulatory Roundup, where we provide you with a...more
Compliance Update for the week Ending April 5, 2024 - For our clients and compliance colleagues, this weekly update will give you a quick look at the latest regulatory developments. Enjoy!...more
Introduction - On 6 February 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to adopt two new rules that significantly expand the definitions of a “dealer” and “government securities dealer” in Sections...more
Federal regulators continue to target Artificial Intelligence (AI), using colorful rhetoric to signal skepticism and justify regulatory oversight. In recent remarks addressing the use of AI in financial markets, SEC Chairman...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 lack of specific guidance regarding failure to supervise liability for chief compliance officers (“CCOs”) has been a controversial and opaque topic that both FINRA and the SEC have struggled with for well over a decade....more
In July 2017, the SEC issued its landmark DAO Report, which clarified, among other things, its view that digital tokens with characteristics akin to those of an "investment contract" as established in SEC v. W.J. Howey Co....more
As a major LIBOR transition milestone approaches, a Staff Statement provides key considerations for market participants regarding their obligations. On December 7, 2021, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange...more
Responding to a “concern” from Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) to the purported increase in enforcement actions holding compliance personnel personally liable, the New York City Bar Association recently released a framework...more
LPL may be the biggest BD in the country, with 21,500 reps operating out of almost 13,000 branch offices. Heaven knows how much money it brings in every year, but, goodness, it must be a lot. And good thing, too, given how...more
The SEC recently announced the creation of the Event and Emerging Risks Examination Team (“EERT”) in its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”). ...more
Litigation Risks Posed by the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest - Pete Tepley and Meredith Lees highlight litigation risks posed by the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest (Reg-BI), litigation risks that may arise from Reg-BI’s...more
SEC Tells Firms to Stop Missing the Basics on Cybersecurity - The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) reported in a recent Risk Alert that many investment advisers and broker-dealers are failing to...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 5 adopted Regulation Best Interest: The Broker-Dealer Standard of Conduct (“Reg BI”), which requires that broker-dealers act in the “best interest” of their “retail...more
At yesterday's open meeting, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a final Regulation Best Interest, as well as additional guidance. Final action relating to the broker-dealer standard of conduct had been...more
In its Fall 2018 regulatory agenda, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that final rulemaking on the Best Interest Regulation is set for September 2019, before the close of the federal government’s fiscal...more
The 2014 Budget Act requires the Department of Business Oversight to provide a report on its broker-dealer/investment adviser program to the the Legislature and the Department of Finance by January 10 of each year. While not...more
In June, we circulated our fifth article on the continuing saga regarding the standard of conduct for sales of securities and annuities — and the efforts of federal and state regulators to impose new conditions on the...more
Regulation BI, Form CRS, Adviser or Advisor, and Fiduciary Duties of Adviser - In a flurry of proposed rulemaking that added up to more than 900 pages of reading material, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more
On April 18, the SEC voted to propose major rule changes to reconcile and clarify the standards of conduct that apply to broker-dealers and investment advisers. ...more