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BROKER-DEALER - 2021 Advisory Committee Overview and Engagement Notice - On March 26, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published a notice encouraging employees of member firms and other interested...more
BROKER-DEALER - SEC Issues Amendments, Seeks Public Comment on Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act - On March 24, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted interim final amendments to implement...more
BROKER-DEALER - SEC Issues No Action Letter on Treatment of Reserved Powers Trust as Non-US Person by Non-US Investment Adviser for Registration Exemption - On March 5, the Securities Exchange Commission’s Division of...more
SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Additional Disclosure Guidance Related to COVID-19 Pandemic - On June 23, the Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) of the Securities and Exchange...more
BROKER-DEALER - CBOE Exchange Proposes to Temporarily Extend the Filing Deadline for Certain Supervision-Related Reports - On June 1, Cboe Exchange, Inc. (Cboe) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a...more
BROKER-DEALER - SEC Amends CAT NMS Plan - On May 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the national market system plan governing the consolidated audit trail (the CAT NMS Plan). The Financial...more
BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Proposes Rule Change to Temporarily Amend Certain Timing, Method of Service and Other Procedural Requirements in FINRA Rules - On May 8, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) filed...more
BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Issues Regulatory Notice Reminding Member Firms about CAT Reporting Deadlines - On May 21, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued Regulatory Notice 19-19 (Notice), which reminds...more
BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Issues Report on Examination Findings - This month, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a report summarizing various findings from recent examinations of its member firms...more
Nearly a year after then-acting US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo actively promoted FinTech innovation as a key to economic growth, he has minted a groundbreaking FinTech...more
SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Expands Nonpublic Review of Draft Registration Statements - On June 29, the Division of Corporation Finance (Division) of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that, beginning on July 10,...more
January 2017 - The last several years have seen law enforcement and regulatory bodies sharpen their focus on trading activity in the securities and derivatives markets. This focus has coincided with the advent of new and...more
ISS Releases 2017 Proxy Voting Guideline Updates - On November 21, ISS published its 2017 Proxy Voting Guideline Updates, which will be in effect for meetings held on or after February 1, 2017. The US 2017 updates cover...more
Industry Comments to Regulation AT Argue CFTC Proposed Rules Too Prescriptive; Registration and Source Code Requirements Particularly Objectionable - After declining multiple requests to extend the comment period that...more
SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies to Discuss Capital Formation Landscape for Small and Emerging Companies - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that its Advisory...more
Alleged Flash Crasher's Formal Indictment Provides More Details Regarding His Purported Spoofing - The US Department of Justice filed a formal indictment against Navinder Singh Sarao in a US federal court in Chicago on...more
SEC/CORPORATE - US District Court Orders SEC To Revise Resource Extraction Issuer Rule - On September 2, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered the SEC to file with the District Court in 30...more
In this issue: - SEC Sanctions 10 Companies for Disclosure Failures Surrounding Financing Deals and Stock Dilution - Delaware Court of Chancery Rejects Entire Fairness Review in Absence of Conflicted Transaction...more