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Swaps Compliance Training and Testing Due 31 January 2021

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INTRODUCTION- By a Notice to Members dated 5 January 2021, the National Futures Association (NFA), the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry, reminded NFA members that their associated persons who are...more

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Know Your Limits: The CFTC Adopts Position Limits for Derivatives Related to Energy, Agriculture, and Metals Products

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INTRODUCTION - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently voted 3–2, along party lines, to approve a final rule (Final Rule) regarding position limits for certain futures contracts and economically equivalent...more

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Deference and Comity: CFTC Approves Cross-Border Swaps Final Rule

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INTRODUCTION - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) recently voted 3–2 to approve a final rule (Final Rule) on the cross-border application of certain swap provisions under the Commodity Exchange Act...more

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Energy and metals companies and funds beware: Your trading positions may be "limited"

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On 30 January 2020 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved on a 3-2 vote proposed rules addressing position limits on speculative derivatives (Position Limits Proposal). The Position Limits Proposal has a...more

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U.S. Withholding Tax and Reporting Action Items for Investment Funds and Asset Managers (Fall 2018)

• Foreign Investor Forms W-8: An update of Forms W-8 on file for non-U.S. investors is generally recommended by December 31, 2018 to ensure that a date of birth (DOB) and non-U.S. taxpayer identification number (Foreign TIN)...more

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Investment Funds Update - Europe: Legal and regulatory updates for the funds industry from the key asset management centres and...

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Central Bank publishes twenty-third edition of UCITS Q&A - The Central Bank published the 23rd Edition of the Central Bank UCITS Q&A on 5 July 2018. A new question, ID 1002, in relation to UCITS investing in non-UCITS...more

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Investment Funds Update - Europe: Legal and regulatory updates for the funds industry from the key asset management centres and...

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Other EU Developments – Deal Reached on Benchmark Regulation and Revisions to Prospectus Directive - Benchmark Regulation - The European Commission and the Luxembourg Presidency reached agreement with the...more

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Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume X, Issue 40

BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Requests Comment on Revised Price Disclosure Information Standards for Corporate and Agency Debt Securities - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued a regulatory notice...more

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Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume X, Issue 35

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

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Investment Funds Update - Europe: Legal and regulatory updates for the funds industry from the key asset management centres and...

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UCITS: New KIID Q&A - ESMA published revised Q&A’s on the KIID on 26 March 2015. The Q&A includes a new question on the treatment of past performance information in case of fund mergers....more

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Investment Funds Update - Europe: Key legal and regulatory updates for the funds industry from the primary European asset...

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EU Passes New Council Directive to Implement “EU-FATCA" - The Council Directive passed by the EU on 1 December 2014 implements the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in Europe. The Directive has to be implemented...more

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This Week In Securities Litigation

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The Commission announced its largest whistleblower action this week – an award to a person overseas of over $30 million. The agency also filed a series of actions this week....more

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Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume IX, Issue 6

In this issue: - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Guidance on Rule 506(c) Private Placements - SEC Issues No-action Relief Regarding Registration of M&A Brokers - CFTC Issues Guidance on New...more

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Legal Alert: 2013 Outlook for Insurance Regulation

We end the first month of the year with a report on major insurance topics that we will be watching in 2013. Many of these developments can be traced to discrete events or market or political forces. This year, those...more

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