January 17, 2020 Compliance Lessons Learned in 2019 Now that we are in mid-January, a few things are evident. We have likely broken one or more New Year’s…
January 8, 2020 CSS Launches First Form CRS Software Tool In Market Global RegTech provider Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS) today announces its release of Form CRS Automator, the market’s first comprehensive and fully…
November 1, 2019 Technology Advances Here and On the Way for Form CRS CSS featured a strong presence at the recent 2019 BAM + Loring Ward Advisor National Conference in St. Louis, Mo….
September 4, 2019 Regulation Best Interest: Understanding the Obligations We have been conducting roundtables and talking to industry leaders to help them identify the challenges that broker-dealers will face…
July 22, 2019 The Challenges of Compliance for State-Registered Advisers Are you the designated chief compliance officer of a state-registered investment advisory firm? If so, you must be clocking many…
June 25, 2019 Early Impressions on Regulation Best Interest, Form CRS One week after the SEC adopted Regulation Best Interest and Form CRS, a Cincinnati roundtable hosted by Fort Washington Investment…
June 5, 2019 SEC Adopts Regulation Best Interest, Form CRS; Also Issues Interpretive Releases on IA Fiduciary Duty and Solely Incidental Exception By a 3-1 vote, on June 5, 2019, the SEC acted to provide a new regulatory framework to help retail,…
October 17, 2018 From Wall Street to Main Street: Update on Standard of Conduct for Investment Advisers Retail investors are confused! They fundamentally cannot differentiate between a broker-dealer and an investment adviser. And that has the SEC…
May 15, 2018 Get Ready for Form ADV, Part 3: Form CRS Are you ready for Form ADV Part 3? As if the last annual updating amendment filing was not tedious enough…
April 20, 2018 Evolution of Fiduciary Rules Begins to Take Shape in SEC On April 18, 2018, the SEC voted to propose several new rules and reforms related to fiduciary standards. The package…