The Fixed Income Clearing Corporation proposed rule amendments that are intended to make effective the SEC's recent adoption of requirements that members of a central clearing organization for U.S. government securities clear certain repo and cash market trades in U.S. governments.
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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.
The SEC postponed the effective date of the "Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule," which requires issuers to provide additional information on the purpose of their repurchase programs. The SEC announced a stay of the "Repurchase Rule" in order to address Administrative Procedure Act deficiencies found by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Managed Funds Assets recommended that regulators obtain more data before imposing clearing regulations on the Treasury market.
A broadband connectivity company settled charges with the SEC for failing to maintain internal accounting controls intended to ensure that the company's stock buybacks were conducted in accordance with management authorizations.