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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: June 1, 2025

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Crypto Task Force Holds Roundtable on Tokenization

On May 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) held a Crypto Task Force roundtable to explore an appropriate regulatory framework for tokenized securities. In the keynote address, Chair Paul Atkins, stated...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Crypto Task Force Holds Roundtable on Crypto Custody

On March 25, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) held a Crypto Task Force roundtable to explore regulatory considerations surrounding custody of crypto assets through broker-dealers and other financial...more

Paul Hastings LLP

SEC Examination Priorities Signal Capital Markets Enforcement

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations recently released its 2025 priorities. These identify several new or emerging areas of focus that could be precursors to enforcement actions, such as the use...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC Division of Examinations Announces 2025 Priorities

On October 21, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)’s Division of Examinations (the “Division”) released its 2025 examination priorities....more

BakerHostetler

Weekly Blockchain Blog - September 2024 #2

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According to recent reports, two U.S. multinational financial technology companies have integrated Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a decentralized naming system built on the Ethereum blockchain, into their payment platforms....more

Seward & Kissel LLP

The New Whopper: SEC Proposes New Safeguarding Rule Which Would Have Significant Impact on Advisers That Engage with...

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Just days after a flurry of crypto-related enforcement actions, the SEC voted to propose the new “Safeguarding Rule” under the Advisers Act, a whopper of a rule proposal which would amend and replace the current Custody Rule...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Division of Examinations’ 2023 Exam Priorities – A Continued Focus on Private Funds, Regulation Best Interest, ESG, and Crypto

On February 7, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Examinations (EXAMs) announced its 2023 Examination Priorities (the “Priorities”), which highlight areas it expects to target in 2023...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SEC’s OCIE Releases 2022 Examination Priorities for Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers, and Other Financial Industry...

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On March 30, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published its examination priorities for 2022 (the Priorities), which discuss its examination approach...more

Blank Rome LLP

Regulatory Update and Recent SEC Actions - April 2019

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REGULATORY UPDATES - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Releases Its 2019 Priorities - On January 22, 2019, FINRA released its Annual Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter, which highlighted the...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

A Taxonomy of the Proposed Token Taxonomy Act

On December 20, 2018, a bipartisan pair of Congressmen, Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Darren Soto (D-FL), introduced bill H.R. 7356 to enact the Token Taxonomy Act (the “Act”). The Act proposes several amendments to federal...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Investment Management Special Report - 2018-19 Compliance Developments & Calendar for Private Fund Advisers

Despite the new administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have both continued to make novel interpretations and to bring enforcement actions that break...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Crypto Crackdown – SEC Imposes Broker-Dealer and Investment Company Registration Provisions on Token Traders and a Crypto Fund

The SEC announced a pair of settled orders on Tuesday extending additional provisions of the securities laws over ICOs and other digital assets – the agency’s first ever enforcement actions of their kind. As the SEC has been...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Recent Development in Regulatory Enforcement of Digital Securities

In a flurry of activity and confluence of developments, the SEC, FINRA and a Brooklyn federal judge have commenced actions and made rulings that continue to define the regulatory framework and obligations surrounding the sale...more

Vedder Price

Investment Services Regulatory Update - August 2018

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New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – SEC STAFF GUIDANCE AND ALERTS – OCIE Publishes Risk Alert on Compliance Issues Relating to Best Execution – On July 11, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

The Top Ten Regulatory and Litigation Risks for Private Funds in 2018

With the public equity markets at an all-time high and private equity fund raising setting new records, it might seem counter-intuitive to forecast litigation and regulatory risks. The opposite is true. Disputes typically...more

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