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K&L Gates LLP

Asset Management Regulatory Year in Review 2024

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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

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Advisers’ Year-End Checklist for 2024

Compliance officers love checklists, so we’ve put together some “to dos” to consider completing before the end of the year. Enjoy!...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Charges Eleven Institutional Investment Managers with Reporting Failures

On September 17, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced cease-and-desist proceedings against eleven institutional investment managers for failure to file reports required by the Securities Exchange Act of...more

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Latest SEC Document Request Lists: What Private Fund Managers Should be Worrying About

Many private fund managers are breathing a sigh of relief after the Fifth Circuit struck down the Private Fund Rules (check out our blog post for more information). Do not, however, assume the SEC will stop its aggressive...more

Alston & Bird

CFTC Commissioner Warns That CCOs May Face Personal Liability

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Our Investment Funds Group reviews the implications of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) policy targeting chief compliance officers (CCOs) as individuals if their companies’ compliance programs fail....more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FINRA Gains Greater Jurisdiction and Members: Amendments to SEC Rule 15b9-1 Will Require Most Proprietary Trading Broker-Dealers...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted amendments to SEC Rule 15b9-1 that will require virtually every broker-dealer to become a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) member. With these...more

Frantz Ward LLP

New Law Exempts M&A Firms From SEC Broker/Dealer Registration

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Merger and acquisition firms—often referred to as M&A brokers—are investment bankers who function as intermediaries to facilitate the sale of private businesses by locating sellers for companies looking for acquisitions, or...more

A&O Shearman

SEC Brings Action Against Investment Advisers For Allegedly Misleading Robo-Adviser Clients About Hidden Fees

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On June 13, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), announced that it had instituted a settled administrative proceeding accusing several investment advisers (the “Advisers”) that focused on robo-advising, and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – Complying with new SEC rules for broker-dealers

FINRA has identified several items in the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) that it will examine for in the first half of 2020 as firms prepare for Reg BI compliance. In this Bottom Line videocast, Susan Krawczyk and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update

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Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Private Fund Services Practice Group, hosts a series of candid, interactive webinar discussions for West LegalEdcenter on what is going on...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Reg BI Information Overload: The Countdown to June 2020 Continues with Planned Reg BI Stress Tests, Checklists and FAQS Courtesy...

As the countdown to the June 30, 2020, date for compliance with Reg BI inches forward, FINRA and the SEC are providing a potpourri of support and information to help firms ensure compliance. FINRA EFFORTS: FINRA’s...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Videocast: Form CRS delivery obligations

Beginning June 2020, the SEC will require most broker-dealers and investment advisers to file and deliver a Form CRS to new, prospective and existing customers and clients. As firms begin to prepare Form CRS, much attention...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

SEC Adopts Amendments to Auditor Independence Rules Addressing Lending Relationships

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On June 18, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") adopted amendments to Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X, which sets forth the SEC's auditor independence standards, changing the analysis of whether an audit firm...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

SEC Proposes to Enhance Protections and Preserve Choice for Retail Investors in Their Relationships with Investment Professionals - On April 18, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose a package of...more

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