New House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC) established a Republican ESG Working Group to "combat the threat to our capital markets posed by those on the far-left pushing [ESG] proposals."

A video game development company settled SEC charges for (i) failing to implement controls to ensure that materially significant workplace complaints were reviewed and disclosed to investors, and (ii) violating SEC whistleblower protection requirements.

In an amicus curiae brief filed with the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Managed Funds Association supported a plaintiff's claims that certain Company bylaw amendments which required expanded information from investors making director nominations or stockholder proposals were invalid and unenforceable, and that the Company's board of directors breached their fiduciary duties by adopting them.

In its annual Staff Report to Congress, the SEC Office of Credit Ratings identified new and ongoing compliance deficiencies for nationally recognized statistical ratings organizations.

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, outlined the Committee's Republican agenda for the 118th Congress.