Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
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Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 71 – Crypto Fault Lines: Stablecoins, Meme Coins & the Fight for Clarity PLUS: Sanctions, Shell Companies & Fragmented Global Trade
Everything Compliance: Episode 155, To Tesla and Beyond Edition
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 155
Daily Compliance News: June 2, 2025, The Unintended Consequence Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: How Should Crypto Companies Be Thinking About New Laws?
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What are the Different Ways Securities Can Be Offered and Sold? (Part 2)
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 154
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 52 – The Big Jet Plane Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What are the Different Ways Securities Can Be Offered and Sold? (Part 1)
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 49 - The Depression Episode
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
On July 16, TradeStation Securities, Inc., a member firm of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC) to FINRA’s Department of Enforcement. This AWC...more
On 29 May 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) issued a guidance statement (Statement) related to certain protocol staking activities. The Statement addresses the impact of federal securities laws on...more
On 15 May 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets (Division) released Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) clarifying how certain broker-dealer and transfer agency rules relate to crypto...more
On this episode of Raising Capital 101, Tom Voekler is joined by colleague Rhys James for the second half of our two-part series, to continue discussing different ways securities can be bought and sold, focusing on using...more
The Staff noted that Securities Exchange Act (SEA) Rule 15c3-3(b) only applies to securities carried by a broker-dealer. Accordingly, if a broker-dealer carries non-security crypto assets (e.g., Bitcoin or Ether), a...more
In a section titled “Annuities Securities Products,” FINRA’s 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, issued on January 28, 2025, addresses regulatory obligations related to the sales of variable annuities (VAs) and...more
On April 8, 2025, then Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), highlighted in remarks before the Annual Conference on Federal and State Securities Cooperation two areas where...more
FINRA’s continued focus on account recommendations and rollovers is evident in its 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report), Based on the Report, broker-dealers and their registered representatives...more
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The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation report on neo-brokers, a subset of brokers which provide online-only investment services and do not operate physical branches....more
Several recent enforcement actions from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) reaffirm that “finders” involved in soliciting investors on behalf of private companies are, in the SEC’s view, required...more
2025 is here, and so is FINRA’s 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (Report). On January 28, 2025, FINRA published the Report, which provides firms with insight into FINRA’s findings from recent observations and...more
This legal update summarizes (a) the reporting requirements under Section 13(d), (f), (g) and (h) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which are generally applicable to persons that own or...more
In this issue of our monthly Securities Enforcement Roundup, we highlight top securities enforcement developments and cases from December 2024. In December 2024: President-elect Trump nominated former SEC Commissioner Paul...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on November 22, 2024, that three broker-dealers have agreed to settle charges for filing suspicious activity reports (SARs) that failed to include important, required...more
On October 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Examinations announced its 2025 examination priorities (2025 guidance) for registered investment advisers and investment companies, broker-dealers,...more
Is FINRA constitutional? Two cases currently playing out in D.C. federal courts, Alpine Securities Corp. v. FINRA and Kim v. FINRA, tee up that question. But the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is an unusual target...more
The SEC has increased its enforcement efforts against firms that are registered as broker-dealers and/or investment advisers for alleged violations of federal securities laws involving “off-channel communications.” Such...more
Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more
On February 6, 2024, the SEC adopted new rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), to expand the scope of “dealers” and “government securities dealers” required to register under the Exchange Act, become...more
Identifying potential investors is one of the most difficult challenges facing early-stage companies. The range of amounts sought at this stage is typically greater than what could be provided by the founders and friends and...more
In a 2-1 opinion issued on February 14, 2024, an Eleventh Circuit panel partially reversed a lower court ruling that would have barred a defendant from participating in future penny-stock offerings. The majority found it was...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed to amend Exchange Act Rule 15c3-3 (the Customer Protection Rule)[1] on July 12, 2023. If adopted, the proposed amendments would increase the frequency with which...more
On August 10, 2023, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (“SIFMA”) – a leading Wall Street industry association – filed suit to enjoin new Missouri regulations requiring investment advisors (“IA’s”) and...more
In February 2023, the SEC adopted rule amendments that require most securities transactions effected by broker-dealers to be settled within one business day (T+1), rather than the currently required two business days. The SEC...more