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How Asset Managers Are Capitalizing on Hong Kong’s Regulations Permitting Virtual Asset Funds

Key Points - - Under Hong Kong’s liberal regulations, several dozen asset managers have been licensed to manage virtual asset funds. - A number of index funds, tied to individual cryptocurrencies and baskets, have also...more

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Japan Continues to Relax Registration Requirements – Simplified Type 1 FIBO Registration

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Japanese regulators have been significantly amending the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA), similar to other jurisdictions seeking to innovate and relax regulatory requirements in order to help spur economic...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

SEC Regulation in a Non-Regulatory Environment

With Paul Atkins as the new SEC Chair, the agency’s priorities have shifted away from many of the aggressive policies of former Chair Gensler. The first four months of the Republican controlled SEC saw a dramatic shift in the...more

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Regulatory Reforms and Market Incentives Announced to Revitalise Singapore’s Equities Market

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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in coordination with the Singapore Exchange (SGX), recently announced the first set of measures, along with public consultations, designed to enhance the competitiveness of the SGX’s...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Expands the Ability of Registered Closed-End Funds to Invest in Private Funds

Since 2002, the staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) consistently issued comments during the registration statement review process to closed-end funds (CEFs) registered under the Investment Company Act of...more

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Update: SEC Approves Additional Flexibility for Co-Investment Relief for BDCs and Closed-End Funds that Previously Obtained...

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On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued an order granting Franklin Square's ("FS") exemptive relief application (the "FS Application") permitting certain business development companies...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

OSC Codifies Exemption from OEO Trailer Ban

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The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently published OSC Rule 81-510 Dealer Rebates of Trailing Commissions (the “Rule”), which codifies temporary exemptive relief from the order-execution only (“OEO”) trailer ban...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Top Ten Regulatory and Litigation Risks for Private Funds in 2024

To understand the litigation and regulatory risks that are coming in 2024 for private capital, it is helpful to look back briefly on recent events. Arguably, the single most important event over the last 18 months was the...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Conflicts of Interest: How High Will the Bar be Raised?

The SEC last month proposed rules under the Advisers Act indicating a dramatic shift in how the SEC intends to reduce conflicts of interest involving private fund managers and their investors. As we previously noted in the...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

The Trend of Increasing Disclosure Obligations for Private Funds Continues in 2022

Last month, the SEC proposed new rules under the Advisers Act that, if implemented, would be the most significant enhancement of disclosure obligations for private fund managers since the Dodd-Frank Act.Citing investor...more

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