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On January 21, 2025, ICI submitted a no-action request letter, available here, to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or "Commission") to request that the staff of the Division of Trading and Markets ("Staff") confirm that it will not recommend that the Commission take...

On January 16, 2025, the SEC announced that it settled charges against two registered investment advisers (the "Advisers"), for breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to reasonably address known vulnerabilities in their investment models and for related compliance and supervisory...

On December 27, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC and collectively, Agencies) issued a statement (Statement) extending previously issued no-action relief under Regulation O.

The Missouri Secretary of State has proposed a rule applicable to investment advisers and investment adviser representatives which would deem effecting any transaction with an investment objective not authorized by a client to be a fraudulent act in Missouri.

On December 19, 2024, the Department of the Treasury published a report on the Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Sector.

The SEC adopted amendments to the Fund Names Rule in September 2023. The compliance dates for the Amendments are currently December 11, 2025 for larger entities and June 11, 2026 for smaller entities.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Divisions of Clearing and Risk, Data, Market Oversight and Market Participants issued a staff advisory on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in CFTC-regulated markets by registered entities and registrants.

Last week, ICI sent a letter (linked below) to SEC Chair Gensler, requesting that the SEC (i) suspend the compliance dates for certain recent regulatory actions, (ii) halt work on not-yet-finalized rulemaking, and (iii) extend soon-to-expire relief that would have a significant impact...

Last week, the SEC staff extended indefinitely compliance relief from Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11 (the "rule") for brokers and dealers publishing or submitting quotations for fixed income securities. The prior SEC staff relief—which the 2024 Letter withdraws—would have expired in...