SEC regulatory compliance & reporting
The proposals would require the establishment of a risk-based margin system that monitors intraday exposure on an ongoing basis, in addition to requiring a more robust recovery and wind-down plan.
One set of amendments affects advisers for large hedge funds and private-equity funds; a second set of amendments increase public company disclosures related to buybacks.
The commission proposed amendments that would require registrants to file a number of submissions electronically as it works to modernize the agency’s information collection and analysis methods.
Proposals would expand who must report on cybersecurity and data breaches, as well as what they must report.
The SEC adopted rule changes to reduce risks in clearance and settlement, shortening the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions in securities, and proposed two other rules.
Regulation is an important step to establishing a baseline for ESG reporting, but it’s only a first step, according to panelists at the AICPA & CIMA Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments.
While the adopted rule adds more checks and balances related to insider trading, the proposed rules aim to remedy SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s concerns that capital markets “are not as fair and competitive as possible for individual investors.”
Regulators encourage accounting professionals to continue to tell their clients’ story while providing updates on the standards they’re required to uphold in the process.
Plan calls for a focus on protecting the public against fraud, implementing robust regulations, and supporting a skilled and diverse workforce.
Those on the front line of the sustainability reporting landscape share what’s to come in 2023 and what accounting professionals need to know to prepare.
Adopted rules aim to ensure that company executives return erroneously awarded compensation and that mutual fund investors receive transparent information. A proposed rule adds to investment advisers’ responsibility to their clients.
Amendments adopted Wednesday provide broker-dealers more flexibility when it comes to how they store electronic records.
Anyone who commented on the SEC’s last 12 rulemaking releases is encouraged to make sure their comments were received.
SEC Chair Gary Gensler says that proposed changes to the Exchange Act Rule of 1975 would “reduce risk across a vital part of our capital markets.”
SEC Chair Gary Gensler calls for cryptoasset entities to register under current securities laws and suggests that more legislation to support regulation could be on the way.
Amendments will require public companies to disclose details about the relationship between executive compensation and financial performance.
The SEC aims to update its disclosure framework and upgrade its protection measures and its workforce in order to uphold its oversight of capital markets.
The AICPA has published a set of questions and answers that explains recently released SEC staff guidance regarding the accounting for entities that have obligations to safeguard cryptoassets held for their platform users.
The SEC said it has adopted amendments to require the electronic filing or submission of certain documents that currently are permitted to be filed or submitted in paper format.
The SEC proposed amendments to rules and reporting forms to promote consistent, comparable and reliable information for investors concerning funds’ and advisers’ incorporation of environmental, social and governance factors.