ETF (Exchange-Traded Funds) Content

The OBO/NOBO Working Group, an industry working group created at the SEC staff's request, yesterday submitted the attached report to the SEC staff ("Report"). Significantly, Working Group participants representing broker-dealers, public companies, and funds agreed that the SEC should...

ICI has filed a comment letter with the SEC on the proposed amendment to the Consolidated Audit Trail National Market System Plan ("CAT NMS Plan") to revise the CAT funding model. ICI recommends that the SEC disapprove the proposed amendment and encourage the SROs to work with...

As we previously informed you, on June 3, 2021, President Biden signed a new Executive Order Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Certain Companies of the People's Republic of China (EO) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published a number of...

On June 3, 2021, President Biden signed a new Executive Order Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Certain Companies of the People's Republic of China (EO) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published a number of new FAQs and updated others...

On May 18, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued General License 1B "Authorizing Transactions Involving Securities of Certain Communist Chinese Military Companies"[1] with respect to Executive Order 13959 of November 12, 2020, Addressing the Threat From Securities...

On Tuesday, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management issued a statement on registered fund investments in cash-settled Bitcoin futures traded on CFTC-regulated exchanges ("Bitcoin futures").[1] The statement cautions funds investing in...

We wanted to inform you about a recent development related to Executive Order 13959. As a reminder, President Trump on November 12, 2020, issued Executive Order 13959 prohibiting by any US person "any transaction in publicly traded securities, or any securities that are derivative of...

To assist funds in implementing new Rule 12d1-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, attached are two sample form of Fund of Funds Investment Agreements that can be used between acquiring funds and acquired funds. One version of the form contains footnotes while the other version...

[33346] March 23, 2021 TO: ETF (Exchange-Traded Funds) Committee RE: May 25 ETF Committee Virtual Meeting The next meeting of the ETF Committee (which is limited to ETF sponsors) has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 25 and will be held virtually via Zoom. The meeting will begin at 2:00...