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The Resurgence of After-Tax Performance

Firms are struggling without up-to-date standards for after-tax performance reporting, or readily available systems to guide their decision making.

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Keynote Panel Announced for ACA's 2022 Annual Conference

Join us for a virtual conference for firms with a U.S. presence. We’ll explore hot topics in compliance, performance, cyber, ESG, and RegTech.

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FINRA Rule 4111 – Knock-Out Blow from FINRA?

Under new Rule 4111, FINRA will evaluate its members to determine which broker-dealers will be categorized as “Restricted Firms.”

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SEC New Marketing Rule: The Compliance Clock is Ticking

After 60 years of little to no amendments, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rules on advertising are set to change. With significant updates and changes ahead, learn why firms should begin preparing now to meet the November 2022 compliance deadline,

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  • SEC
  • SEC Marketing Rule
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FINRA 2022 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities

The report identifies applicable rules and related compliance considerations for broker-dealers, summarizes recent exam findings, and describes best practices.

Compliance Alert
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Impact of Proposed Regulations on Real Estate Advisers

The SEC staff under Chair Gary Gensler have been busy developing a raft of proposed new rules that could have big implications for real estate advisers, in particular those that are vertically integrated.

Compliance Alert
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  • Private Fund
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SEC Chairman Highlights Continued Scrutiny of SPACs

The SEC Chairman laid out strong signals in December 2021 that he will push for tougher rules on SPACs.

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Transaction Reporting: A Common Good, Commonly Wrong

Startling findings have detected that most firms are struggling with their transaction reporting obligations under MiFIR / EMIR. Results reveal more than 6M transaction reporting errors identified across a sample of 30 review projects, averaging 200,000 errors per review. This means that regulators are not receiving the data they need to successfully identify market abuse and systemic risk.

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  • FCA
  • Trade & Transaction
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NFA Revises Key Financial Balances for Pool Financial Statements Filing for CPOs

The NFA has recently made changes to the annual pool financial statements filings required for all registered CPOs that operated a commodity pool in 2021.

Compliance Alert
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Preliminary Investigation Finds No Evidence of Okta Breach

Screenshots and images of Okta's internal systems were circulated online early March 22nd by the hacking group LAPSUS$.

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