In the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the SEC obtained a final judgment against an adviser and his UK-based financial services firm for engaging in billions of dollars of U.S. securities transactions without registering as a broker-dealer.
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OFAC sanctioned eight Chinese technology firms for supporting the tracking and surveillance of minority groups in China, including members of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur and Kazakh communities. OFAC placed these companies on the Non-Specially Designated Nationals Chinese Military-Industrial Complex List.
SEC Chair Mary Jo White provided an overview of the SEC's "robust and wide-ranging work" to regulate the global securities marketplace.
ISDA published the 2015 ISDA Universal Resolution Stay Protocol (the "2015 ISDA Protocol") which "enables parties to amend the terms of their Protocol Covered Agreements to contractually recognize the cross-border application of special resolution regimes applicable to certain financial companies and support the resolution of certain financial companies under the United States Bankruptcy Code." In addition, SIFMA, the International Capital Market Association ("ICMA") and the International Securities Lending Association ("ISLA"), in coordination with ISDA and the Financial Stability Board
IOSCO published a staff working paper titled "Corporate Bond Markets: An Emerging Markets Perspective" that is intended to provide a base against which to study corporate bond markets (as opposed to bank lending markets) in the emerging markets.