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ACA's experienced compliance, risk, and technology professionals regularly provide insights on industry news, trends, and best practices. Our blog now consolidates all ACA compliance alerts, thought leadership articles, white papers, cybersecurity alerts, and results from ACA surveys to help you find the information you need more quickly and easily.

Compliance
White Paper: Top 10 Risk and Compliance Challenges for 2020 and Beyond
White Paper
February 27, 2020
White Paper: Top 10 Risk and Compliance Challenges for 2020 and Beyond

ACA’s top 10 risk and compliance challenges for 2020 and beyond white paper underscore both the complexity of the challenges that risk and compliance teams are facing, as well as the need to evolve the compliance function to adopt a fresh approach.

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Performance
OCIOs look to the GIPS Standards to provide greater performance transparency
Thought Leadership
February 26, 2020
OCIOs look to the GIPS Standards to provide greater performance transparency

The Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (“OCIO”) model became widely adopted about a decade ago and since then the industry has grown rapidly, with well over 100 firms providing some level of these services.

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Performance
2020 GIPS Compliance Notification Form Now Available
Thought Leadership
February 20, 2020
2020 GIPS Compliance Notification Form Now Available

Firms that claim compliance with the GIPS standards are required to notify CFA Institute of their claim of compliance. Each GIPS-compliant firm must submit the GIPS Compliance Notification Form by June 30 of each year.

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    Cybersecurity
    Understanding the Risk And Protecting Yourself from Payment Fraud
    Product Update
    February 19, 2020
    Payment Fraud: Understanding the Risks and Protecting Yourself and Firm

    Payment fraud threats are a major concern for financial services firms globally, with fraud trends reflecting a continued and sustained growth over the past few years. It has become essential that firms are proactive in predicting and assessing their exposure to these threats in order to mitigate the likelihood and impact of a payment fraud incident. 

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    Compliance
    Managing Expanding Compliance Expectations With Limited Resources
    Thought Leadership
    February 14, 2020
    Managing Expanding Compliance Expectations With Limited Resources

    While risks, regulatory expectations, and the volume of compliance team tasks are all increasing, the skilled resources CCOs need to keep up with this demand may be difficult to obtain. We have enhanced our support options to meet these growing and evolving needs.

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    Compliance
    Summary of FINRA's Regulatory Actions in 2019
    Compliance Alert - FINRA
    February 13, 2020
    Summary of FINRA's Regulatory Actions in 2019

    FINRA's Enforcement Division brought 108 enforcement actions and levied fines against member firms that totaled $57,981,625‬‬ in 2019. These numbers mark a significant decrease in the enforcement actions and total fines from 2018.

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    RegTech
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    Product Update
    February 12, 2020
    Introducing Insider Trading and Market Abuse Surveillance for Personal Trading Data in ComplianceAlpha

    Clients of ACA’s Employee Compliance solution in ComplianceAlpha® can now receive Items of Interest (IOI) for potential insider trading and market abuse related to employees’ personal trading activity.

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    RegTech
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    Survey
    February 10, 2020
    Key Takeaways for Buy-Side Firms from 1LoD’s 2020 Surveillance Benchmarking Survey & Report

    Our key takeaways from 1LoD's 2020 Surveillance Benchmarking Survey & Report for buy-side firms.

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    Europe
    SFTR Reporting – Non-EU AIFs Out of Scope
    Compliance Alert - ESMA
    February 7, 2020
    SFTR Reporting – Non-EU AIFs Out of Scope

    The European Securities Market Authority ("ESMA") and the European Commission have today confirmed that non-EU Alternative Investment Funds ("AIFs") (i.e. AIFs not established in the EU) will not be subject to Securities Financing Transaction Regulation ("SFTR") reporting obligations.

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    Compliance
    OCIE 2020 Examinations Priorities Letter for Broker-Dealers
    Compliance Alert - SEC
    February 7, 2020
    OCIE 2020 Examinations Priorities Letter for Broker-Dealers

    On January 7, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC’s") Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (the “OCIE”) released its 2020 Examination Priorities Letter out

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    Compliance
    First Test of Liquidity Risk Management
    Thought Leadership
    February 6, 2020
    First Test of Liquidity Risk Management

    The recent last minute extension of the Chinese Lunar New Year market closure proved to be troublesome for some mutual funds and ETFs compliance with the Liquidity Risk Management Program. We outline how to prepare for such unexpected changes.

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    Cybersecurity
    M&A Due Diligence Challenges: Transition Management
    Thought Leadership
    February 5, 2020
    M&A Due Diligence Challenges: Transition Management

    Our M&A Due Diligence Challenges blog series addresses the changing nature of IT, cybersecurity, and data privacy and how investors can manage these risks and increase their chances of achieving a successful M&A transaction. Part 2 covers Transition Management and Day 1 / 100 days planning.

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