Notice Requirements, Policies and Procedures, Incident Response Plans

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

SEC Revamps and Enhances Data Protections with Amendments to Regulation S-P

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 5/30/2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has announced the adoption of amendments to Regulation S-P (“Amendments”) to modernize and enhance the rules that govern the treatment of consumers’ nonpublic personal...more

SEC adopts amendments to Regulation S-P to address risks associated with the expanded use of technology

A&O Shearman on 5/29/2024

On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to Regulation S-P (“Reg S-P”) that are intended to help protect investors’ privacy from the “expanded use of technology and corresponding...more

SEC Amends Regulation S-P to Require Data Breach Notifications and Additional Written Policies

Seward & Kissel LLP on 5/24/2024

On May 16, 2024, the SEC amended Regulation S-P to impose new data privacy and security requirements on broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, investment companies (whether or not they are registered with the SEC),...more

New Privacy and Cybersecurity Obligations for Private Fund Sponsors and Managers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/21/2024

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed expanded privacy and cybersecurity obligations on fund managers and sponsors registered with the SEC as investment advisers. While many registered investment advisers...more

NYDFS Releases Pre-Proposed Second Amendment to its Cybersecurity Regulations, 23 NYCRR 500

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 9/2/2022

On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published the pre-proposed second amendment to its Cybersecurity Regulations, 23 NYCRR 500 (Part 500), that if adopted, would likely require numerous...more

SEC Warns Registered Firms about Client Privacy and Data Security

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/29/2019

• The SEC released a Risk Alert summarizing key areas in which it continues to see compliance deficiencies related to Regulation S-P, the primary SEC rule regarding privacy notices and safeguard policies of investment...more

The SEC Released A Risk Alert On Reg S-P, a/k/a How To Avoid A $1 Million Penalty

UB Greensfelder LLP on 4/24/2019

I am hardly saying that SEC Regulation S-P is the sexiest of regulations. I mean, has any customer is history actually read one of those exciting statement stuffers that discloses in some dense font a BD’s privacy policy?...more

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