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Regulatory Roundup for August 2024

More Flack on WhatsApp, Hypothetical Performance SmackDown, A Timely Warning on the Pay-to-Play Rule, and Updates to Qualifying Venture Capital Fund Exemption - This month's big news from the SEC was more piggy-bank breaking...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Latest Round of SEC “Off-Channel” Communications Settlements Highlights Risks for Investment Advisers and Benefits of...

More than two years after announcing the first round of settlements in the ongoing “off-channel communications” probe, the SEC recently announced another round of settlements with 26 financial firms, totaling $390 million in...more

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SEC, Federal Regulators Target Employees’ Use of Text Messages, Off-Channel Communications

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other financial regulators are targeting regulated entities over their employees’ use of personal messaging apps and other off-channel electronic communication platforms,...more

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SEC Reaffirms Importance of Self-Reporting and Cooperation, but Benefits Remain Ambiguous

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Recently, a senior officer from the SEC's Division of Enforcement defended the penalties the Commission has levied on firms for failing to capture and retain their employees' "off-channel" electronic communications, and, in...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Twinkle-Twinkle Little SAR: SEC & FINRA Settle with Broker-Dealers and Registered Rep

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In a series of settlements announced this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) penalized several broker-dealers for allegedly failing to file...more

White & Case LLP

SEC’s Focus on Off-Channel Communications Continues

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On September 29, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") brought its latest wave of enforcement actions related to "off-channel communications," charging 10 additional firms with failing to maintain employee...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

SEC Charges 11 Firms with Widespread Recordkeeping Failures

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers, Registered Investment Companies, Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC recently settled charges against ten broker-dealers and one dually...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 5 SEC Developments for June 2023

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important SEC enforcement developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

The SEC’s Recent Personal Device Settlements Shed Light on the Question of Self-Reporting

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Summary - Two more broker-dealers became the latest financial institutions to settle with the SEC for failing to maintain and preserve electronic communications. What distinguishes these settlements from the 17 prior...more

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SEC Pressures Advisers on Undisclosed Conflicts

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We are actively looking for circumstances where an adviser is financially conflicted by incentives that could affect investment recommendations to clients. ... And I will tell you: the more we look, the more undisclosed or...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

“The Opinions Offered Today Are Mine Alone And Do Not Represent The Commission” — A Summary Of Recent Remarks From SEC And CFTC...

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Anyone who has sat through a talk by financial regulators is undoubtedly familiar with the refrain from the individuals that they do not speak for the Commission and that the opinions offered are their own. Even with that...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

SEC Sues Investment Adviser for Nondisclosure of Revenue Sharing Agreement Details

On Aug. 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) charged Commonwealth Equity Services LLC, dba Commonwealth Financial Network (Commonwealth), a registered independent investment adviser to private clients (but not...more

Alston & Bird

FINRA’s New Guidance on Credit for Cooperation in Investigations

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is stressing the importance of “extraordinary cooperation” with its investigations if broker-dealers want credit to reduce sanctions. ...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on the Latest Guidance From FINRA and the CFTC, and an FCA Paper...

BROKER-DEALER - Division of Trading and Markets and FINRA Staffs Issue Joint Statement on Broker-Dealer Custody of Digital Asset Securities - On July 8, in response to questions raised by market participants regarding...more

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Voya Settlement Shows That Self-Reporting To FINRA Can Pay Off

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I have written before about the troubling lack of clarity regarding the tangible benefit of self-reporting rule violations to FINRA. While FINRA purports to provide some potential advantage for doing so, it is so awfully...more

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DOJ Loosens Prohibition on "Ephemeral Communications"; SEC Does Not

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The Situation: Most companies have faced challenges in finding the right balance between their information governance programs and their employees' use of technologies that do not permit retention of communications....more

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SEC's Focus on Retail Investors Targets Financial Conflicts of Interest

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Initial results of the SEC's Share Class Disclosure Initiative indicate a heightened focus on disclosures made to retail investors and consequences for any failure to self-report. On February 12, 2018, the U.S. Securities...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - March 2019 #2

Unexpectedly, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a new initiative to encourage non-registrants to self-report foreign corrupt practices, which it claimed might also constitute violations of laws and rules it...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FINRA’s 529 plan share class initiative

On January 28, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) launched its 529 Plan Share Class Initiative (the Initiative) to encourage member firms to self-report potential violations of rules governing 529...more

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FINRA’s 529 Share Class Self-Disclosure Initiative: If It’s Good Enough For The SEC, It Must Be Good Enough For FINRA

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About a year ago, the SEC offered investment advisors the unique opportunity to report themselves to the SEC if they sold mutual funds to their clients that offered a lower priced share class than the class actually selected...more

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The Clock is Ticking for Investment Advisers to Self-Report Mutual Fund Share Class Violations

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On February 12, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced an initiative to address undisclosed conflicts of interest by investment advisers in the context of mutual fund share classes. Dubbed the Share Class...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Targets Advisers With New Cooperation Initiative

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The SEC’s Division of Enforcement announced a new cooperation initiative addressed to investment advisers who have failed to disclose conflicts arising from the receipt of 12b-1 fees from mutual funds. In essence, the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

SEC Announces Customer Protection Rule Initiative

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Broker-dealers with historical or ongoing instances of non-compliance with the SEC’s Customer Protection Rule are encouraged to self-report by November 1, 2016. On June 23, 2016, the Securities and Exchange...more

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SEC Charges Municipal Bond Issuer, Broker With Fraud

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Municipal bond offerings have become a key focus of SEC Enforcement. The agency has brought a series of actions in addition to an initiative that encourages the self-reporting of underwriters in return for reduced sanctions....more

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