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

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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

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SEC Formally Withdraws Fourteen Rule Proposals

On June 12, 2025 the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) formally withdrew fourteen outstanding rule proposals issued by the prior administration. Although most observers doubted that the current Commission would adopt...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Dashing Through Cybersecurity Regulations in the Financial Services Sector in 2024

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Throughout 2024, financial sector regulators sharpened their focus on data protection and cybersecurity issues impacting financial institutions and the public. Key federal agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Cozen O'Connor

Summarizing the SEC’s 2025 Examination Priorities Report, Part 2

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In the second part of this legal update series, we summarize the key takeaways from the Division of Examinations’ (Division) 2025 priorities report released on October 21, 2024. The Division remains focused on mainstays like...more

Goodwin

FINRA Publishes Metaverse Report and Requests Industry Comments

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FINRA’s Office of Financial Innovation published a report on “The Metaverse and the Implications for the Securities Industry” to raise awareness among its member firms and the broader securities industry and seek industry...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

SEC Imposes New Cybersecurity Requirements on BrokerDealers, Investment Companies, Registered Investment Advisers, and Transfer...

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Covered institutions will need to review their cybersecurity and incident response policies and procedures ahead of the applicable compliance deadline. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC Adopts Significant Cybersecurity Amendments to Regulation S-P

On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final amendments to Regulation S-P, one year after issuing the proposed amendments (discussed here). Regulation S-P is a set of privacy rules that govern...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

SEC Rulemaking 2023 - An Overview

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In 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continued its trend of recent years of robust and significant rulemaking that affects the range of players in the securities industry — public companies, broker-dealers,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Management Update - November 2023

...SEC Adopts Amendments to Fund Names Rule - On September 20, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Fund Names Rule) as well...more

K&L Gates LLP

The SEC Publishes 2024 Examination Priorities Ahead of Schedule, Previewing Key Areas of Focus for Registered Entities

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On 16 October 2023, the Division of Examinations (Division) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its examination priorities for the 2024 fiscal year (the Report). The Division released this Report...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 5 SEC Developments for July 2023

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important SEC enforcement developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This...more

White & Case LLP

AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

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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

Carlton Fields

SEC Stirs Its Pot of Cybersecurity Preparedness and Response Proposals

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The SEC remains laser-focused on cybersecurity, with the agency recently reopening the comment period on a sweeping rule for investment advisers and investment companies. In addition, the SEC issued proposed enhancements to...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC Proposed New Rule and Extensive Updates to Existing Rules on Cybersecurity

On March 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed a new rule concerning cybersecurity risk management as well as updates to Regulations S-P and SCI (Systems Compliance Integrity).[1] With these...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Management Update - April 2023

SEC Rules and Amendments - Liquidity Rule Amendments: Interval Funds to the Rescue? On November 2, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose significant amendments to Rule 22e-4 under the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The SEC Expands Focus on Cybersecurity Risk to Include Registered Advisers, Broker‑Dealers, and other Market Participants

Last month, the SEC took a big step toward strengthening the cybersecurity of financial systems by proposing regulations that, taken together, will require registered investments advisers, broker‑dealers, and all national...more

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SEC Proposes Three New Cybersecurity Rules To Enhance Consumer Protection And Market Security

On March 15, 2023, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a major step towards strengthening cybersecurity in the financial sector by proposing three new rules. These rules aim to improve privacy,...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

SEC Proposes New Cybersecurity Rules for Market Entities

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On March 15, 2023, the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued three additional proposed rules that would expand the reach of the agency’s current cybersecurity guidance to new entities and augment existing...more

Baker Donelson

SEC Issues Multiple Cybersecurity Rule Proposals

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continued its focus on cybersecurity regulations this month by announcing three new proposed rules and re-opening the comment period on an additional proposed rule from last year....more

Goodwin

SEC Proposes Changes to Reg S-P to Enhance Protection of Customer Information

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In this Weekly Roundup Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to Reg S-P to enhance protection of customer information, and reopened the comment period on proposed cybersecurity rules and...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC Proposes Data Breach Notification and Incident Response Requirements

On March 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed three rule changes that demonstrate its continued focus on cybersecurity. One of these proposals, and the only one to be unanimously approved (the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SEC Releases 2023 Examination Priorities for Registered Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

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On February 7, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Division of Examinations (the “Division”) released its annual Priorities Report1 for upcoming examinations of registered investment advisers...more

Bracewell LLP

FINRA Facts and Trends - September 2022

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Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Twelve Hours to Get It Right: The SEC Intensifies Its Focus on Cybersecurity

The SEC’s recent enforcement actions, public statements and proposed rulemaking indicate that cybersecurity will be an area of heightened focus for the Gensler Commission. New proposed rules would require public companies...more

Perkins Coie

SEC Proposes New Cybersecurity Risk Management Regime for Registered Funds and Advisers

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In today’s asset management landscape, cybersecurity threats are omnipresent, and with constantly evolving tools of attack, actual breaches have become increasingly prevalent. As the complexity, scope, and frequency of cyber...more

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