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ESG Investing Listed Among ‘Significant Areas of Focus’ for SEC Examination Division

On March 30, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Examinations (the “Division”) released its 2022 examination priorities. The Division announced an enhanced focus on five “significant areas”:...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The SEC’s 2022 Examination Priorities: A Focus on ESG Investing

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Examinations (the “Division”), on March 30, 2022, released its 2022 examination priorities (the “Division’s 2022 priorities”), highlighting the “annual...more

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SEC Intensifies Focus on ESG Disclosures and Policies, Practices, and Procedures

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On March 3, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) Division of Examinations (the Division) announced its Examination Priorities for 2021, which included an enhanced focus on climate-related risks. ...more

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ESG Asset Managers and Investment Funds - Near-Term SEC Enforcement Risk

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) threw down the gauntlet after President Biden’s election and asserted its interest in greater regulation and policing of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. One...more

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SEC’s Disclosure Rules to Touch Climate, Human Capital and More

According to media reports, during last week’s annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation—hosted jointly by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, Lehigh University and...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Erasing the Distinction Between What’s Good and What’s Profitable: The SEC’s Increased Focus on Climate and ESG

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On March 22, 2021, the SEC launched a new page on its website to collect agency actions and resources about climate and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in investing. This is the latest in a series of...more

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SEC Continues to Signal its Commitment to ESG Disclosures and Reporting

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While there has not been any new rule-making from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just yet, the agency has sent clear signals over the past six weeks to public companies and investors about its commitment to...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

ESG - Is the SEC Ready to Lead?

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Climate is a topic that has gone from largely ignored to most talked about by the Commission. Recently, for example, the SEC hired a climate expert to serve on the senior staff....more

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SEC Acting Chair Announces Sweeping Climate and ESG Initiatives, New Regulatory Priorities and Potential Rollback of Recent Rule...

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In a speech on March 15, 2021, Allison Herren Lee, Acting Chair of the SEC, reported on the steps the SEC is taking to meet investors’ growing demand for climate and ESG information, stating that “no single issue has been...more

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OCIE Publishes Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations

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On January 27, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) published observations from its examinations of regulated entities, including funds and investment advisers, to assist those entities in...more

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OCIE Publishes Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations

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Background - On January 27, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations ("OCIE") published its Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations. Cybersecurity and data...more

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OCIE Risk Alert Highlights Compliance Program Catch-22

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A risk alert issued on November 7, 2019, by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations underscores a continuing dilemma faced by SEC-regulated entities....more

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SEC Releases Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations: A Potentially Useful Guide for Businesses

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In today’s connected world, businesses face constant pressure to improve their cybersecurity practices and to confirm that they are meeting industry standards. To continue helping businesses achieve those goals, the SEC...more

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Cybersecurity: Key Considerations Developed by OCIE

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The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations published a series of observations gleaned from thousands of exams over a period of years. While OCIE’s charge is the inspection of certain SEC registrants the...more

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OCIE Releases Risk Alert Summarizing Observations from Fund Exams and Recent Initiatives

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On November 7, 2019, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert outlining its top compliance observations from examinations of nearly 300 registered funds conducted over a two-year...more

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SEC Is Ready To Execute Its 2019 Examination Priorities

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations published its 2019 examination priorities on Dec. 20, 2018. Since this occurred just prior to the implementation of a partial...more

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SEC’s Exam Deficiencies

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The SEC recently released its findings relating to exams of investment advisers. In particular, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) found weak compliance programs; insufficient or late...more

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Is this the first shot in the SEC’s war against social media?

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The SEC has repeatedly included issues around social media in its annual exam priorities for investment advisers. With the SEC’s recent release of a final rule on the subject, the SEC has taken that “exam priority” to the...more

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SEC Cybersecurity Update

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Results from the SEC’s First Round of Cybersecurity Examinations - On February 3, 2015, the OCIE published a risk alert summarizing its findings from its examinations of over 100 registered investment advisers and...more

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SEC Announces Second Wave of Cyber Exams of Broker Dealers and Advisors – Is Your Firm Ready?

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In April 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued a Risk Alert announcing its first cybersecurity sweep initiative. Pursuant to that initiative,...more

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Proactive Approach To Cybersecurity: Recent SEC guidance and enforcement actions suggest that reactive firms may be in the SEC’s...

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In an environment where even the largest and most powerful corporations have fallen victim to data breaches, it can be challenging to fathom how to protect against the sophisticated and ever-evolving threat of cyber attacks....more

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SEC Brings First Cybersecurity Enforcement Proceeding in Wake of Risk Alert

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Highlights Areas of High Risk and Examination Priorities for Financial Industry Firms - On September 15, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance, Inspections and Examinations (OCIE),...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SEC Ramps up Cybersecurity Scrutiny With Examination Priorities and an Enforcement Action

Why it matters - Signaling that it will continue to increase its scrutiny of firms' cybersecurity readiness, the Office of Compliance, Inspections and Examinations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"SEC Issues Cybersecurity Initiative"

On September 15, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a risk alert release announcing that the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) will be conducting a new Cybersecurity...more

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