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The FCA's six-month tolerance on the obligation to report 10% portfolio depreciation ends on 30 September. We examine what this means for portfolio managers.
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FINRA's Enforcement Division brought 19 enforcement actions against member firms in Q2 2020 and levied fines that totaled $2,107,000. These numbers mark a decrease in the enforcement actions and the total fine amount from the second quarter of 2019.
The SEC OCIE has issued an alert warning of an increase in the use of the “credential stuffing” tactic in attacks against SEC registrants, including broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investment companies. Credential stuffing can significantly increase financial, regulatory, legal, and reputational risk to firms and OCIE has made recommendations for protecting client accounts.
The FCA recently confirmed the re-opening of the Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR). This provides a short-term Brexit opportunity for EEA based Asset Managers to operate within the UK post 31 December 2020. Our TPR Q&A examines what this means for firms.
The FCA recently provided new SM&CR guidance for solo-regulated firms on Fitness and Propriety (”F&P”) assessments and Conduct Rules training. Here we summarise these updates and provide guidance on how to meet the regulators expectations.
FinCEN and the U.S. banking agencies issued a joint statement clarifying FinCEN's CDD requirements for PEPs. The statement also described the risk-based compliance approach associated with such requirements under the BSA.
The importance of ensuring complete, accurate and timely reports under EMIR is in the spotlight again. This follows a recent response from the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) to ESMA’s March 2020 Consultation Paper on reporting to trade repositories. Reporting firms are well advised to see the response as a shot across the bows and an indication of things to come.
As summer winds down and we gear up for a busy fall we thought we’d take a moment to look back at the most popular ACA articles so far this year.
The FCA recently added a webpage reminding solo-regulated firms of their obligation to report breaches of its conduct rules (and ensuing disciplinary action) as required under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR).
Throughout the lockdown, the FCA and SEC have voiced thier expectation that private information is handled appropriately and that firms maintain adequate and appropriate information barriers. Firms should revisit what is considered “private” information and how that can get a little grey and nuanced in the private markets sector.
The SEC and FINRA issued updated guidance on the characterization of U.S. broker-dealers under the Customer Protection Rule. This new guidance states that Non-Covered Firms that solely engage in Non-Covered Firm activities are no longer subject to any Rule 15c3-3 requirements.
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