12/19/2025 10:02:02 PM SEC Staff Issues Helpful Guidance on Custodying Digital Asset Securities and Complying with the Customer Protection Rule By Wayne Aaron Michael Didiuk On Wednesday, December 17, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets (Division) issued a helpful statement (the Statement) to clarify its...
12/17/2025 6:37:22 PM SEC Extends Relief Allowing Brokers to Rely on Advisers for AML Compliance By Richard Marshall Earlier this year, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) adopted rules imposing anti-money...
12/17/2025 6:07:20 PM New SEC Cybersecurity Rules Begin to Take Effect By Richard Marshall On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unanimously approved amendments to Regulation S-P, which imposes new rules...
11/19/2025 5:42:54 PM FINRA Case Involving Gifts and Entertainment By Richard Marshall On October 21, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) filed a settled enforcement action involving allegedly improper gifts...
10/1/2025 2:31:42 PM Breaking Barriers: SEC-CFTC Host Historic Harmonization Roundtable By Carl Kennedy Michael Didiuk Lori Jacobs In what the agencies are touting as “a new era of collaboration” and “a new day for US capital markets,” the Securities and Exchange...
6/16/2025 1:17:09 PM SEC Requests Stay of CAT-Related Class Action Proceedings By James Brady Michael Lohnes Nicholas Gervasi On June 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requested a stay of proceedings in a pending class action lawsuit challenging...
5/29/2025 7:44:38 PM SEC Signals Reevaluation of CAT Reporting Amid Broader Transparency and Regulatory Reform Efforts By James Brady Michael Lohnes Nicholas Gervasi Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins recently directed SEC staff to conduct a review of the Consolidated...
3/17/2025 7:33:09 PM FINRA Proposes and Seeks Comment on Simplified Rules for Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions By Wayne Aaron On Friday, March 14, in Regulatory Notice 25-05, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) proposed a new rule to address when...
2/13/2025 5:07:06 PM SEC Grants Further Relief From Including Personally Identifiable Information in CAT Reporting By James Brady Michael Lohnes Wayne Aaron Susan Light +1 more... Show less On February 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted relief exempting industry members from reporting a natural person’s...
11/22/2024 11:15:31 PM Alpine v. FINRA Big News By Susan Light Wayne Aaron On November 22, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted Alpine a preliminary injunction, ruling that the...
11/21/2024 7:59:27 PM US Federal Court Vacates SEC’s Dealer Rule By James Brady Wayne Aaron Susan Light Earlier today, the US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas vacated the rule recently adopted by the Securities and Exchange...
8/15/2024 6:14:22 PM Crypto Compliance in Focus: FINRA Unveils Key Insights on Member Firms’ Digital Asset Activities By Susan Light James Brady Alex Kim The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released a comprehensive update on its insights into its member firms’ involvement in...
7/31/2024 9:47:32 PM FinCEN Proposes Enhanced AML Rules By Susan Light Eli Krasnow On July 3, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a proposed rule (the Proposal) to strengthen and modernize...
2/12/2024 8:34:15 PM Katten Fact Sheet for Certain Firms That Must Become FINRA Members By Susan Light As background, the SEC adopted amendments to Rule 15b9-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA Rule 15b9-1) that require a...
2/7/2024 7:22:31 PM SEC Broadens 'Dealer' Definition By James Brady Susan Light Richard Marshall On February 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted two new rules that expand who may be considered a dealer or a...
1/4/2024 4:09:52 PM Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be! By Susan Light FINRA filed a rule amendment with the SEC on January 2 to propose amending FINRA Rule 3240, Borrowing From or Lending to Customers...