The Managed Funds Association criticized the SEC's proposal to require that investment advisers include ESG disclosures in financial reports, saying the disclosure may cause unintended "greenwashing" and is a "problematic and material departure from the existing SEC disclosure framework."

The SEC conditionally permitted FINRA to access security-based swap data obtained from security-based swap data repositories.

A CFPB interpretive rule clarifying that digital marketing providers for financial firms can be subject to traditional service provider regulations became effective on August 17th.

The SEC charged three individuals with securities fraud for engaging in insider trading in the securities of Equifax, Inc. prior to its announcement of a major data breach.

The SEC charged three cryptocurrency entities and their founder with engaging in the unregistered offering of a crypto-asset.