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

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SEC Warns of Data Privacy Compliance Issues

On April 16, the SEC's OCIE issued a risk alert detailing compliance issues from recent examinations of investment advisers and broker-dealers pertaining to privacy regulations.

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  • Compliance
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What Boards Need to Know About the SEC’s New Cybersecurity Request List

Cybersecurity oversight continues to challenge boards and now the SEC has updated their request list for cyber exams. This updated list combined with previously articulated SEC expectations, provides some directional help for boards as they navigate cybersecurity issues. In this blog, ACA's Jim Pappas shares what boards need to know.

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  • Compliance
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Understanding the impact of new prudential capital rules on UK asset management firms

The coming rules create a new prudential capital framework that is more tailored to the asset management industry – the previous structure was more focused on banks. While the changes will be modest for some firms, others will be significantly impacted by these new rules.

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  • Compliance
  • FCA
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ACA Compliance Group Expands Consulting Services for Bank Asset Managers

ACA Compliance Group (“ACA”) has expanded its consulting services that will help banks engaged in asset management activities manage risk and meet growing regulatory expectations. The bank asset management consulting services practice is overseen by former bank examiner, Roy Kim.

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  • Compliance
  • Bank Asset Management
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Brexit and the FCA's Temporary Permissions Regime: The Final Countdown?

With the UK government’s desperate attempts to achieve a Brexit settlement having reached a crescendo, the FCA continues to make preparations for the worst case no-deal scenario. There appears still to be some uncertainty about who the regime applies to. This alert updates our previous alert on the same topic, with the objective of providing certainty to our clients on the current position.

Compliance Alert
  • Compliance
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The SEC Encourages Transfer Agents to Review and Strengthen Policies, Procedures and Controls

On February 13, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations ( OCIE) issued a Risk Alert highlighting the concerns and issues associated with certain types of transfer agents (“TAs”) that also serve as paying agents. While the Risk Alert is aimed at certain operational and regulatory requirements, compliance professionals within the mutual fund industry should also consider how certain areas identified by OCIE are compared to their mutual fund company’s in-house or third-party TA and/or sub-transfer agent(s).

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  • Compliance

Events

Wealth Management EDGE

Join the ACA Wealth and ACA Foreside teams in Hollywood, FL at the Wealth Management EDGE Conference.

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2024 FINRA Annual Conference

Meet-up with ACA's team at the FINRA Annual Conference, FINRA’s premier event which provides the opportunity for practitioners, peers and regulators to exchange ideas on today’s most timely compliance and regulatory topics.

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