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Last month, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC and collectively, Agencies) issued a statement extending previously issued no-action relief under Regulation O.[1] The no-action relief...

On January 2, 2024, ICI submitted a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) commenting on its recent regulatory package on fiduciary investment advice ("Proposal"). The Proposal includes proposed amendments to the regulation defining who is a "fiduciary" under section 3(21) of ERISA...

Linked below is the comment letter that ICI filed today with the SEC, which expresses serious concerns with how the SEC's proposed amendments to the liquidity rule would affect mutual funds and ETFs investing in bank loans. This letter elaborates on points made about bank loan funds...

Last month, FINRA filed with the SEC proposed amendments to Rule 2210 (Communications with the Public) (the "rule"). If adopted, the amendments would permit a FINRA member to project the performance or provide a targeted return with respect to a security or asset allocation or other...

On November 27, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or "Commission"), on a 4-1 vote by seriatim, adopted Rule 192 ("Final Rule") under the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), which implements the prohibition under Section 621 of the Dodd-Frank Act on material...

On December 11, 2023, Investment Company Institute (ICI) submitted comments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding its proposed amendments to Regulation 4.7 (the "Proposal"). While the Proposal contained several proposed amendments that would affect commodity...

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Fall 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on December 6, 2023. The agenda includes regulatory actions that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission expect to take...

On November 3, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or "Commission"), by seriatim, issued proposed amendments ("Proposal") to its rules governing the safeguarding and investment of funds deposited by customers to margin futures, foreign futures, and cleared swap transactions...