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Compliance Insights and Alerts
Compliance teams are constantly challenged to keep pace with ever-evolving regulatory change while navigating the pressures of geopolitical threats, economic crises, and third-party risks. Uncertain times require a nimble approach to achieve compliance and address business priorities in new ways to enable innovation and growth while minimizing risk.
As the global regulation continues to change, it's key that you keep up to speed with latest developments. Here we capture the latest compliance trends, industry insights, risk alerts, and events.
Latest insights and alerts
Summary of FINRA Regulatory Actions in Q2 2020
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.
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EMIR Trade Reporting – The Next Horizon
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.
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ACA’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2020 So Far
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.
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FCA Reminds Firms of their New Conduct Rules Reporting Obligations under SM&CR
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).
Compliance Alert
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Public, Private or ‘Private Private’: Do you have the right information barriers?
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.
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New Guidance for Characterizing Certain Broker-Dealers Under the SEC’s Customer Protection Rule
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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