Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board consolidated a few positions, eliminating its chief compliance officer role and promoting its CFO.
November 23 -
Dealerweb is a wholesale unit of Tradeweb Markets, a large fixed-income electronic trading platform company. FINRA found that Dealerweb failed to correctly report 147,000 trades.
November 20 -
During his leadership, Clayton oversaw amendments to Rule 15c-12 and pushed for more transparency in the municipal market.
November 16 -
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The MSRB is looking specifically for issuers and non-dealer municipal advisors.
November 12 -
The IRS will post quarterly updates of its enforcement strategy on the webpage of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division-Compliance Programs and Priorities.
November 9 -
S&P Global Ratings downgrades the Garden State's general obligation bonds one notch to BBB-plus from A-minus.
November 6 -
Moody's deemed both the likely passage of San Francisco Unified School District's parcel tax and Los Angeles USD's $7 billion bond measure credit positives.
November 5 -
Public finance made up just 3% of total standalone enforcement cases.
November 3 -
Harvey has failed to fully implement an independent consultant's recommendations in violation of a 2014 settlement that resolved securities charges, the SEC says.
October 29 -
The SEC's Rebecca Olsen said in 2021, the regulator plans to explore ways to get more comment on financial disclosure recommendations.
October 29 -
In the first episode of the five-part Arizent documentary series, we look at how disparities in net worth and mortgage discrimination impact Black home ownership — and why it's impossible to close the gaps without attacking systemic racism.
October 26 -
In the first episode of the five-part documentary series, we look at how disparities in net worth and mortgage discrimination impact Black home ownership — and why it's impossible to close the gaps without attacking systemic racism.
October 26 -
The board, at the first quarterly board meeting of its 2021 fiscal year, also voted to split its existing Nominating and Governance Committee into two.
October 23 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's new CEO plans to improve the quality of data on its site.
October 20 -
The majority of the spending was $21.36 million devoted to lobbying members of Congress and federal agencies over the 12 months that ended June 30.
October 16 -
A painful reality of the current environment is that headcount is a target for cost reduction despite that demands have never been greater — compliance, client demands and the need to access and leverage data and information to avoid a competitive disadvantage.
October 15 -
The board will discuss a long-term strategic plan for the MSRB and the regulatory framework of electronic trading platforms.
October 14 -
Current SEC Chair Jay Clayton will likely not be reappointed as both President Trump and Joe Biden are likely to pick chairs more aligned with their political parties.
October 14 -
Missing minimum denomination and interest rate information for VRDOs affected about 57 CUSIPs, FINRA found.
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