May 29, 2020 Don’t Forget the Disclosure Obligation Recently, the SEC announced the settlement of an enforcement case against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) involving charges that MSSB…
May 28, 2020 CME Group to Wind Down European and Australian Repositories Following an evaluation made by the CME Group, they have come to the decision to wind down the Abide Financial,…
May 27, 2020 Private Fund Enforcement Order on Custody Rule Violations Easy Pickings But Maybe Also Warnings of Valuation Expectations Even With COVID-19 Difficulties Now that we are nearly into…
May 27, 2020 Shareholder Disclosure: Long Holdings in Europe Investment managers are subject to hundreds of threshold reporting rules throughout Europe, for long holdings, short selling, and dealing disclosures….
May 20, 2020 RegTech Radar: Foreign Investment Developments The following RegTech Radar update focuses on recent changes in Japan’s Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (FEFTA) and additional…
May 12, 2020 New York Rule Modernization Proposal We have learned of a potentially major change for New York state and federally covered investment advisers. The New York…
April 30, 2020 A Familiar Theme in Unfamiliar Times Recently, the SEC settled with a private equity adviser for failing to adequately disclose and obtain consent for conflicts of…
April 23, 2020 Eventually, We Have to Go Back – BCP Post-Mortem We don’t know when, but at some point we will have to put on shoes, get a haircut and return…
April 22, 2020 Coming of Age – The SEC Proposes Modernized Fund Valuation Practices It has been 50 years since the SEC last addressed valuation practices for funds registered under the Investment Company Act…
April 20, 2020 ESMA Proposes Major Changes to EMIR On March 27, ESMA published a consultation on changes to the technical standards of trade reporting under the EMIR Refit…
April 7, 2020 New SEC Risk Alerts The SEC today issued Risk Alerts identifying areas related to Form CRS and Regulation BI on which examiners will focus…
April 3, 2020 COVID-19 and Compliance – Mitigation Efforts Will Have Compliance Consequences the SEC Soon Will Examine We understand that COVID-19 has brought many stresses, both personal and professional. To many private fund advisers, this may seem…