February 22, 2022 Timeline of ESG Regulation Effective Dates Financial market participants take note: in the EU, ESMA just posted a convenient timeline of ESG regulation effective dates (dated…
February 22, 2022 ESG: SFDR’s “Article 10” website disclosures To state the obvious, the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) has received immense attention from the financial sector in…
February 11, 2022 Hot New Rules from the SEC Reduce 13D / 13G filing deadlines to 5 days Require annual cyber security plan reviews Require private fund advisers to…
February 11, 2022 New SEC Rules Re-cap Release No. Date Details First Quarter 33-11028 Feb. 10, 2022 Modernization of Beneficial Ownership ReportingFile No: S7-06-22Other Release No: 34-94211Comments…
February 11, 2022 SEC Propose Amendments to Modernize Beneficial Ownership Reporting (13D and 13G Rules) SEC proposed certain amendments to modernize Beneficial Ownership Reporting (13D and 13G Rules). More specifically, SEC proposed: i) new shorter…
February 9, 2022 Private Fund Adviser Risk Alert Part II On January 27, 2022, the SEC’s Division of Examinations (the “Division”) published a second risk alert for private fund advisers…
January 7, 2022 Adapting your RIA Compliance Program for Crypto The following blog post was written by Jackie Hallihan, Executive Director of Compliance Services, and Matt Calabro, Director Institutional Services,…
December 29, 2021 Custody Rule Vigilance In a recent settlement order, the SEC reminded the investment advisory community that the SEC remains vigilant in enforcing the…
December 22, 2021 SEC Staff Statement on Form CRS Disclosures The SEC’s December 17, 2021 Staff Statement Regarding Form CRS Disclosures essentially tells the industry that there are mistakes everywhere. The…
December 22, 2021 2021 RegTech in Retrospect The RegTech space on the buy-side of the investment management industry has taken a little longer to mature than many…
December 21, 2021 Hackers Return to the Field with a Proven Playbook What’s worked Back in April 2021, when the SolarWinds hack was publicly disclosed, much of the world discovered just how…
December 17, 2021 New ESMA Q&A on PRIIPs KID A new Q&A on the PRIIPs KID has just been released from ESMA. View it here. Some key updates include:…