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Ropes & Gray LLP

Ropes & Gray’s Investment Management Update October – November 2024

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The following summarizes recent legal developments of note affecting the mutual fund/investment management industry. On October 21, 2024, the SEC Division of Examinations (“EXAMS”) published its annual Examination Priorities...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Department of Labor’s Expanded Cybersecurity Guidance: What ERISA Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Need to Know

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On September 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued Compliance Assistance Release No. 2024-01, titled “Cybersecurity Guidance Update.” The updated guidance clarifies that the DOL cybersecurity guidance applies to...more

Morgan Lewis

How Financial Services Companies Can Prepare for and Comply with New Federal Cybersecurity Requirements

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US regulators have increased their focus on cybersecurity issues impacting financial services companies, with a host of guidance documents recently released by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the three...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Management Update - April 2023

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SEC Rules and Amendments - Liquidity Rule Amendments: Interval Funds to the Rescue? On November 2, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose significant amendments to Rule 22e-4 under the...more

A&O Shearman

Show me the Cryptocurrency: English High Court Grants Novel Information Orders Against Crypto Exchanges

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The High Court has once again grappled with novel issues raised by disputes concerning cryptoassets, this time in the context of an interim application for information orders....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FBI Warns About Cybersecurity Problems on DeFi Platforms

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Decentralized finance platforms (DeFi) are designed to operate in a decentralized manner primarily through the utilization of smart contracts. Smart contracts are simply a name given to small “if/then” statements written in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Alight Solutions Must Comply with Subpoena Issued by DOL in Cybersecurity Incident Investigation

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A subpoena was issued to Alight Solutions by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for documents related to a cybersecurity breach that potentially resulted in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) violations. Alight...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

SEC Proposes Cybersecurity Rule for Registered Funds and Investment Advisers

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Final comments were due last week to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s proposed cybersecurity risk management rules for registered investment advisers, registered investment companies and business development...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 5 SEC Enforcement Developments for February 2022

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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 has...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

SEC to Advisors and Funds – Adopt and Implement Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures

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On February 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted to propose rule 206(4)-9 under the Advisers Act and 38a-2 under the Investment Company Act (collectively, “Proposed Rule”). In general, the Proposed Rule...more

Allen Matkins

PropTech Update - December 2021

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After PropTech's monster 2021, stage set for huge adoption, investment in 2022 - Bisnow – November 30 - Real estate technology's banner 2021, which has seen a record-setting $9.5 billion invested in the sector through...more

Alston & Bird

Investment Management, Trading & Markets Updates – November 2021

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SEC Chair’s Senate Committee Testimony on SEC Initiatives On October 5, 2021, SEC Chair Gary Gensler provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services. Several of the initiatives are of...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

US Securities and Exchange Commission Increases Focus on Cybersecurity

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This past summer’s string of cyber enforcement actions signals that cybersecurity has become a top priority for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). This focus is consistent with the SEC’s Division of...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

DOL Begins Its Cybersecurity Audit Initiative – And It’s a Doozy

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We repeatedly warned over the past few months, that officials at the highest levels of the DOL were signaling that the DOL would begin an audit initiative focusing on retirement plan cybersecurity practices. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Department of Labor issues novel cybersecurity guidance for benefit plan sponsors and their service providers

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On April 14, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued its first cybersecurity-focused guidance related to benefit plans regulated by Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)....more

Epstein Becker & Green

EBSA Speaks: New Guidance for Mitigating Retirement Plan Cybersecurity Risk

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On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s”) Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued its first cybersecurity best practices guidance for retirement plans. The guidance is set forth in three...more

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ERISA Plan Sponsors – Watch Your Participants’ Data! DOL Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance for Retirement Plans

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In response to a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report recommending federal guidance to mitigate cybersecurity risks in retirement plans and to respond to ever-increasing cyber threats to plan participant data and...more

Hogan Lovells

Funds and asset management regulatory news, November 2020

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COVID-19: EFAMA updates cyber-prevention standards for investment management companies - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published a document updating the International Investment Funds...more

Goodwin

Fintech 2020: A Global Survey on the State of Financial Technology

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Letter from Our Co-Chairs - As the digital transformation of financial markets accelerates at breakneck speeds, fintech presents significant opportunities and challenges for both investors and innovators around the world. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Risk Alert Highlights on COVID-19-Related Compliance Risks and Considerations for Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

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- The OCIE of the SEC highlights that responses to COVID-19 present important regulatory and compliance issues for SEC registrants, including “heightened risks of misconduct” tied to recent market volatility. - The Risk...more

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SEC’s Examination Function Warns Its Registrants of Risks Associated with Dangerous Malware

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- In the age of broad corporate teleworking brought on by COVID-19, OCIE of the SEC has observed during recent examinations that investment advisers, broker-dealers and investment companies are subject to an increased threat...more

Goodwin

Financial Services Weekly Roundup: Gone Phishing – The SEC’s OCIE Addresses Ransomware Attacks

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In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to its exemptive applications procedures under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act) and proposed to amend Form 13F to...more

White and Williams LLP

The Big Change in Cybersecurity Regulation That No One Is Talking About

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The close of 2019 witnessed a significant development in data security law that impacts companies regulated with respect to or engaged in the trading of public securities, as well as those companies that provide services to...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Data Privacy and Security

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Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Private Fund Services Practice Group, hosts a series of candid, interactive webinar discussions for West LegalEdcenter on what is going on...more

King & Spalding

Financial Services: UK Regulators Shine a Spotlight on Cybersecurity and Technology Resilience

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In a paper published last month,[i] the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) set out various cybersecurity insights gleaned from the work of cyber coordination groups (“CCGs”) the regulator established in 2017. The...more

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