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Investment Funds & Private Capital Market Insights: SEC Announces 2024 Examination Priorities

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The SEC’s Division of Examinations (“DOE”) recently released its 2024 examination priorities (available here). The SEC provides examination priorities on an annual basis to convey to registrants specific areas that DOE will...more

K&L Gates LLP

Road Map for an Examination: SEC Examination Risk Alert Lays Out SEC Examination Strategy Considerations

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For registered investment advisers, examinations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are a part of doing business. While an SEC examination is inevitable, many advisers have often wondered why they were selected...more

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Investment Funds & Private Capital Market Insights: Selection and Scope of SEC-Registered Investment Adviser Examinations

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On September 6, 2023 the SEC released a risk alert (available here) detailing how the Division of Examinations (the “Division”) utilizes a risk-based approach for both selecting which SEC-registered investment advisers...more

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

SEC’s Recent Enforcement Sweeps Targeting Off-Channel Communications of Fund Advisers

In this time of continuing digital transformation, the use of smartphones and messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and Telegram, has become increasingly popular in business practice....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

SEC Exams to Include ESG Focus in 2023

On February 7, the Division of Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the publication of its 2023 examination priorities, which include a focus on ESG-related advisory services and fund...more

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CFPB Advises Manipulating Search Results on Comparison-Shopping Platforms May Violate RESPA

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CFPB Advises Manipulating Search Results on Comparison-Shopping Platforms May Violate RESPA - On February 7, the CFPB issued an advisory opinion, accompanied by a statement from CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, clarifying that...more

Morgan Lewis

Current Developments in Sec Examinations & Enforcement: A Special Report for Investment Advisers

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Morgan Lewis’s securities enforcement and investment management teams highlight expected US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) priorities for investment advisers in 2022 and look back at significant SEC...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

SEC Risk Alert Highlights Renewed Focus on Insider Trading and MNPI Policies and Procedures for Fund Managers

Last month, we predicted that a renewed focus by the SEC on insider trading, MNPI and related internal controls would be one of the Top Ten Regulatory and Litigation Risks for Private Funds in 2022. Last week, the SEC’s...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Material Investment Management Developments and Template Annual Compliance Checklists for Registered Investment Advisers, Exempt...

Summaries of recent legislative and regulatory developments with respect to: •SEC’s 2022 Examination Priorities • Proposed Amendments to Form PF Requirements- •Proposed New Rules Applicable to Private Fund Advisers and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Exam Priorities 2022 and Compliance

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The Division of Examinations announced its 2022 Exam Priorities in a release dated March 30, 2022. The 2022 priorities are, as usual, a blend of traditional considerations from past programs mixed with new and at times...more

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SEC’s focus on compliance: What boards should know

Rule 38a-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) requires funds to review their compliance programs, as well of those of their service providers, including their investment advisers (advisers), annually....more

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SEC Division of Examinations Announces 2021 Examination Priorities

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For each of the past nine years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Examinations (previously called the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, or OCIE, and hereinafter referred to as...more

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Division of Examinations 2021 Focus Areas

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The Division of Examinations plans to continue prioritizing traditional areas while improving their overall approach, building on past work and interactions with investors and those in the industry, according to the 2021 Exam...more

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Investment Services Regulatory Update - February 2020

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New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – PROPOSED RULES – Agencies Propose Volcker Rule Amendments Relating to Covered Funds – On January 30, 2020, the Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, OCC, SEC and CFTC proposed...more

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OCIE Announces 2020 Examination Priorities

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On January 7, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) announced its 2020 examination priorities for regulated entities, including investment advisers and registered funds. The examination...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 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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Investment Management Update

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new rule and related amendments designed to streamline and enhance the regulatory framework for "fund of funds" arrangements....more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

SEC, FINRA Target ICOs, Cybersecurity, Secondary Market Trading in 2018 Examination Priorities

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently released their respective 2018 examination priorities, providing a glimpse into their plans for the year to...more

Carlton Fields

OCIE Lessons From Cybersecurity 2 Initiative

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On August 7, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert containing observations from its Cybersecurity 2 Exam Initiative. As a follow-up to the 2014 Cybersecurity 1 initiative, the...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

SEC Staff Announces 2017 OCIE Examination Priorities

On January 12, 2017, the staff of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its annual announcement on examination priorities in the coming calendar...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume XI, Issue 2

BROKER-DEALER - 2016 Examination Priorities Announced By SEC - On January 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission released the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations’ (OCIE) 2016 examination...more

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