Insights
Operational Resilience in Focus, Part One: What is Operational Resilience?
In the first part of our Operational Resiliency Series, we dissect what exactly is operational resiliency, what are its domains, the foundational components, the benefits of operational resiliency and how it's different from business continuity planning.
- Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Resources
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.
- Performance
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.
- Compliance
- RegTech
- ESG
- Cybersecurity
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.”
- Compliance
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,
- Compliance
- Performance
- SEC
- SEC Marketing Rule
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
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
- Private Fund
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.
- Compliance
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.
- Compliance
- FCA
- Trade & Transaction
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