The Alternative Investment Management Association, the Managed Funds Association and the National Association of Private Fund Managers filed a Complaint against the SEC to vacate the agency's recently adopted rule to change the definitions of "dealer" and "government securities dealer.”
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An investment adviser settled charges with the SEC for failing to timely disclose the adviser's "control" purpose, with respect to an issuer whose shares it had acquired for the account of a hedge fund that it managed.
In comments in response to FINRA's and MSRB's proposal to shorten the time allowed for post-trade reporting in debt securities, SIFMA recommended that FINRA and MSRB reconsider if a one-minute trade reporting requirement is appropriate for fixed income markets.
The Congressional Research Service reviewed the Policy debates over rebates that retail brokerage firms receive for directing retail investor stock trades to certain venues, known as "payment for order flow."
FINRA fined a muni dealer for MSRB Rule violations including (i) failing to timely cancel or close out inter-dealer municipal securities transactions after settlement; (ii) failing "to take prompt steps to obtain physical possession or control of 247 short positions resulting from failed inter-dealer municipal securities transactions;" and (iii) related supervisory violations.