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SEC Rule 13f-2 and Form SHO: New Short Position Reporting Requirements for Certain Investment Managers

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently adopted Rule 13f-2 and Form SHO under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), implementing provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more

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New Proxy Voting Reporting Requirements For Investment Managers For 2023-24 Annual Meeting Season

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On November 2, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of amendments to Form N-PX and related rules to extend public company stockholder vote disclosure filing requirements beyond...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: March 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

BakerHostetler

SEC Approves Spot Bitcoin ETFs; CFTC Publishes DeFi Report; FINRA Addresses Crypto Assets; Reports Provide Data on Crypto Scams

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On January 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) simultaneously approved eleven spot bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on an accelerated basis based on its Order Granting Accelerated Approval of Proposed...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

D.C. Circuit overturns SEC rejection of an investment company’s Bitcoin ETF

On August 29, the D.C. Circuit overturned the SEC’s denial of a company’s application to convert its bitcoin trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF). In October 2021, the company applied to convert its bitcoin trust to an...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SEC Approves New ETF Listing Rules for Nasdaq, Cboe and NYSE Arca

In April 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved rule change proposals of the three primary listing exchanges for exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The new rules extend automatic listing to all ETFs that are...more

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SEC Re-Proposes New Rule Governing Funds’ Use of Derivatives

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On November 25, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or the “Commission”) re-proposed a new exemptive rule under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)—Rule 18f-4 (the...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Re-Proposes Investment Company Derivatives Rule under the Investment Company Act

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) re-proposed on November 25, 2019 rules under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) relating to, among other things, use by investment companies of...more

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A Summary: Changes to Exemptive Relief and Disclosure Requirements under the New ETF Rule

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On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted a final rule under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”) that will enable most exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) to...more

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SEC Adopts Final ETF Rule to Streamline and Ease Product Development

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On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted a new rule to modernize the regulation of most exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). Rule 6c-11 (the “Rule”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as...more

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SEC Adopts New ETF Rule

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On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted Rule 6c-11 (the “Rule”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), the long-awaited “ETF Rule.” ETFs that satisfy certain...more

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SEC Adopts Rule to Allow Most ETFs to Operate without an Order (With Strings Attached)

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The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a long-awaited exemptive rule that will allow most exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to operate without an exemptive order, subject to various conditions. The final rule, which the...more

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SEC Adopts Long Awaited ETF Rule to Modernize ETF Regulation

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SEC ADOPTS LONG AWAITED ETF RULE TO MODERNIZE ETF REGULATION - On September 25, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission” or “SEC”) approved Rule 6c-11 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Crypto Firms Make Inroads with State and Federal Regulators

Over the past couple of years, the crypto industry has come under heavy scrutiny from skeptical regulators seeking to root out fraud and protect investors amid the initial coin offering boom that generated over $4 billion in...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC denies application for bitcoin-based ETF; Commissioner Peirce dissents

On July 26, 2018, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) denied an application for the Winklevoss brothers—of Facebook fame (and fortune)—to launch the first bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would allow...more

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Exchange-Traded Funds: Proposed Rule 6c-11

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After 26 years and the issuance of over 300 exemptive orders, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission), through the rulemaking process, is seeking to simplify and streamline the regulatory process for new...more

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Investment Services Regulatory Update - November 2017

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New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts - SEC STAFF GUIDANCE AND ALERTS - SEC Staff Issues No-Action Letters to Facilitate Cross-Border Compliance with the Research “Unbundling” Provisions of the European...more

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SEC Stays Approval of Quadruple-Leveraged ETF

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On May 25, 2017, the SEC stayed a May 2 order issued by the Division of Trading and Markets, acting for the SEC pursuant to delegated authority, that would have permitted the listing and trading of shares of the first...more

Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation

SEC Eases Regulatory Burden for Listing Actively Managed ETFs

The Securities and Exchange Commission took a step toward streamlining the approval process for actively managed ETFs last week by approving rule proposals from two securities exchanges....more

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SEC Reconsiders Exchange-Traded Products

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The SEC recently published myriad questions about the listing, trading, and marketing (especially to retail investors) of "new, novel, or complex" exchange-traded products (ETPs). Such ETPs include exchange-traded funds...more

Morgan Lewis

Update on Proposed Listing Standards for Active ETFs

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The SEC is considering an amended proposal by NYSE Arca to adopt generic listing standards for actively managed ETFs. On June 5, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order (the Order) instituting...more

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