News & Analysis as of

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act › Public Comment › Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute signed into law on July 21, 2010. The Act was passed in response to the Great Recession of the late 2000s and... more +
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute signed into law on July 21, 2010. The Act was passed in response to the Great Recession of the late 2000s and includes broad reforms related to many aspects of the financial and banking industry. Notable sections of the Act include stricter regulations of the derivatives market, as well as the Volcker Rule, which restricts the trading practices of FDIC-insured institutions.    less -
McDermott Will & Emery

SEC hosts roundtable on executive compensation disclosure requirements

McDermott Will & Emery on

On June 26, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hosted a roundtable attended by issuers, institutional investors, third-party advisors, and industry groups to discuss potential updates to current executive...more

Goodwin

SEC Adopts Amendments to Whistleblower Program Rules

Goodwin on

Regulatory Developments - SEC Adopts Amendments to Whistleblower Program Rules - On August 26, the SEC adopted two amendments to the rules governing its whistleblower program, which are covered under Section 922 of...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: March 2022

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on

CFPB Announces Intention to Expand Enforcement Against Unfair Discrimination - The CFPB has published an updated examination manual for evaluating unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices (“UDAAPs”), which explains...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Proposes Short Sale Disclosure Rules

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on

On February 25, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it unanimously voted to approve proposed changes requiring certain institutional investment managers (managers) to report short...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Proposes New Rules to Encourage Private Fund Transparency and Address Certain Conflicts of Interest

Sullivan & Worcester on

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published on February 9, 2022 a release (the “Proposing Release”) in which it proposed new rules (collectively, the “Proposed Rules”) that would apply to investment...more

Goodwin

SEC Proposes Changes to Private Fund Regulation

Goodwin on

In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to private fund regulation; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) succeeded in validating its “valid-when-made” rulemaking; the...more

BakerHostetler

SEC Reopens Comment Period on Dodd-Frank Act Pay-Versus-Performance Rule

BakerHostetler on

The SEC has reopened the comment period for the 2015 Proposal regarding the Dodd-Frank Act pay-versus-performance rule. In conjunction with the reopening, the SEC has proposed several additional disclosure requirements in an...more

Morgan Lewis

Securities Lending: SEC Proposes Sweeping Rule Requiring Reporting of Transactions to FINRA

Morgan Lewis on

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed Rule 10c-1 would create a sweeping new reporting and disclosure regime for participants in the securities lending markets. Among other things, the proposal increases the...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: SEC revisits 2015 Dodd-Frank clawback proposal—opens public comment period

Cooley LLP on

It’s time to dig back into your mental archives for 2015. That’s when the SEC, by a vote of three to two, initially proposed rules to implement Section 954 of Dodd-Frank, the clawback provision. But the proposal was...more

Goodwin

CFPB, FTC And 50 States Show Power In Numbers With Operation Corrupt Collector

Goodwin on

In the News. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and more than 50 federal and state law enforcement partners, announced Operation Corrupt Collector, a nationwide law...more

Goodwin

SEC Stays Busy With Amendments And Extensions To Various Rules, Definitions And Disclosures

Goodwin on

In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to update and expand the statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants must provide to investors for the first time in 30...more

Goodwin

Financial Services Weekly News: Regulators Propose Easing Volcker Rule Restrictions

Goodwin on

In This Issue. Federal financial regulators brought January to an impactful conclusion last week. On the morning of January 30, five federal financial regulators issued a proposed rule that would fundamentally modify the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Re-Proposes Rules To Implement Resource Extraction Payment Disclosure Requirements

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on

On December 18, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted in favor of proposing rules to implement the resource extraction issuer disclosure provisions in Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which added...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Proposes Resource Extraction Payments Disclosure Rules

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

At the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “Commission”) open meeting on December 18, 2019, the Commissioners proposed rules to require resource extraction issuers to file an annual Form SD that includes information...more

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense

SEC Releases FY 2019 Whistleblower Program Annual Report

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense on

On November 15, 2019, the SEC published its annual report to Congress covering the agency’s whistleblower program. The report, which covers the period of October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019, was prepared by the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Recent SEC No-Action, Re-Proposal for Security-Based Swaps Focus on Comparability With Other US Regulators

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on

In recent days, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a no-action position on enforcing its 2016 Business Conduct Standards against security-based swap dealers (SBSDs) and major security-based swap...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Recent Developments Toward A Fiduciary Standard For Brokers

Womble Bond Dickinson on

Much has happened since we last reported on the Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule. The compliance deadline was extended 18 months to July 1, 2019. A federal appellate court vacated the Fiduciary Rule in its entirety. The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Standards of Conduct for Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers Under SEC Review

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on

In the six months since Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton requested public comments on standards of conduct for investment advisers and broker-dealers, industry participants, investors and other...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Reconsider the Ratio: SEC Acting Chair Calls Pay Ratio Rule into Question

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on

Acting Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Michael Piwowar recently told Bloomberg in an interview that, pending confirmation of President Trump’s successor for chair of the SEC, the commission was “not going...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human...

SEC Extractive Industry Transparency Requirements Move Forward

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human... on

On December 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a new proposed rule to implement a key provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that targets corruption and increases transparency requirements for payments...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

SEC Staff Report on Accredited Investor Standard

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on

The Dodd-Frank Act required that the SEC periodically assess the “accredited investor” definition. On Friday, the SEC issued the staff report, which was prepared by Staff from the Divisions of Corporation Finance and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Returns to the Plate with a New Proposed Extractive Industries Payments Rule

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on

After striking out in its first attempt to formulate a proposed rule to implement the extractive industry payments provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), the Securities and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FinCEN Proposes Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Reporting Rules for Registered Investment Advisers

Morrison & Foerster LLP on

On August 25, 2015, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed rules that would require registered investment advisers to adopt anti-money laundering (AML) programs and report...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

SEC Proposes Rules on Compensation Clawback Policies

Foley & Lardner LLP on

On July 1, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules relating to compensation clawback policies. The rules, if adopted, would implement the requirements of Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: SEC On The Verge Of Proposal To Implement Dodd-Frank Clawback Provision

Cooley LLP on

The WSJ is reporting that the SEC is on the verge (July 1) of proposing clawback rules designed to implement Section 954 of Dodd-Frank, “recovery of erroneously awarded compensation.” Of course, actual implementation could...more

27 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2
Next »

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide