SEC Director of Enforcement, Gurbir S. Grewal highlighted the challenge of ensuring that companies and investment firms make truthful ESG disclosures, and the tendency of some entities to exaggerate positive ESG activities or downplay negative ESG-related information.
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The SEC granted a Belgian company relief from certain SEA requirements as to the conduct of tender offers in the Belgian company's planned acquisition of shares of another Belgian-incorporated company.
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.
A broker-dealer settled SEC charges for failing to comply with Regulation Best Interest in connection with recommendations to retail brokerage customers purchasing mutual fund shares in their IRAs.
The SEC updated its guidance on investment adviser marketing since the adoption of the "Marketing Rule".