SEC Approves New Rules to Address Run Risks in Money Market Funds
The Federal Reserve has announced that its FedNowSM Service, a new interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments, went live on July 20 with 35 early-adopting banks and credit unions. The...more
On July 12, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") voted, by a 3-2 vote, to adopt money market fund reforms that will significantly impact the regulatory framework governing money market funds ("money funds"...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) adopted amendments to the rule governing money market funds on July 12, 2023 in an attempt to address concerns about institutional prime and institutional tax-exempt...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose money market fund reforms; the SEC also proposed amendments to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans and to modernize and improve share repurchase...more
The rules generally give helpful and timely guidance for dealing with the new reality of floating rate money market funds. There is a new reality for dealing with floating rate money market shares. On July 8, 2016, the...more
Final U.S. Treasury regulations under Section 446 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code’), providing for the use of the net asset value (“NAV”) accounting method for transactions in money market fund...more
On July 23, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules governing money market funds in a release adopting amendment to Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and other related...more
On July 23, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted final rules governing the structure and operation of money market funds, in a release adopting amendments to Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company...more
On July 23, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules governing the structure and operation of money market funds (SEC MMF Reform Rules). See our client alert entitled “SEC Adopts Floating-NAV and...more