Global Investment Law Watch

Exploring the legal and regulatory issues affecting the worldwide asset management community.

 

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United States: House Committee on Financial Services Urges the SEC to Withdraw Final and Proposed Rules
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Europe: UK Sanctions Regulator Highlights Compliance Failures
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United States: SEC’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence Begins to Take Shape
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Australia: APRA Proposes Reforms to Strengthen Governance Standards
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United States: New Kid on Y’all’s Block
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Trust But Verify (With A Minimum Investment Amount)
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Europe: FCA Advances Efforts to Address the UK’s EU Legislative Legacy, Starting With MIFID
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United States: Potential Increase to Debenture Limit for Levered Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs)?
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Europe: National Regulators Announce Digital Operational Resilience Act Reporting Windows
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Middle East: New Saudi Netting Regulation Creating a Buzz

United States: House Committee on Financial Services Urges the SEC to Withdraw Final and Proposed Rules

By: Lance C. Dial, and Donela M. Qirjazi

On 31 March 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services (Committee), in a letter to Acting Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mark Uyeda, identified a series of proposed and adopted rules that the SEC should withdraw or rescind. The letter notes the Committee’s view that the SEC, under the prior Chair, had lost sight of its mission. The identified proposals and rules represent significant rulemaking efforts on the part of the SEC, many of which were controversial and subject to significant industry opposition. The specific proposals identified are the following:

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Europe: UK Sanctions Regulator Highlights Compliance Failures

By: Michael E. Ruck, Rosie L. Naylor, Petr Bartos, Helen J. Phizackerley, and Laura Scott

On 13 February 2025, the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published an assessment of suspected sanctions breaches involving UK financial services firms since February 2022. It highlights three areas of concern:

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Australia: APRA Proposes Reforms to Strengthen Governance Standards

By: Jim Bulling, Simon Kiburg and Eddie Frost

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has proposed reforms to strengthen core prudential standards and guidance on governance, currently set out in SPS 510 Governance, SPS 520 Fit and Proper, and SPS 521 Conflicts of Interest.

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United States: New Kid on Y’all’s Block

By: Stacy L. Fuller, Kevin R. Gustafson, Richard F. Kerr, Jessica D. Cohn, and Christine Mikhael

On 31 January 2025, the Texas Stock Exchange LLC (TXSE) filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a fully electronic, national securities exchange.

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Trust But Verify (With A Minimum Investment Amount)

By: Pablo Man and Ruth Delaney

On 12 March 2025, the SEC staff issued a no-action letter for offerings under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D. In the letter, the Staff concurs that an issuer will have taken “reasonable steps to verify” a purchaser’s accredited investor status in an offering conducted under Rule 506(c) if the issuer requires purchasers to agree to certain minimum investment amounts, subject to a few additional conditions:

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Europe: FCA Advances Efforts to Address the UK’s EU Legislative Legacy, Starting With MIFID

By: Philip Morgan, Andrew Massey, and Harriet Sherwin

Following an HM Treasury policy statement, the FCA has published a consultation paper proposing amendments to some of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID) conduct of business and systems and controls rules inherited from the EU that continue to exist in the UK statute book in close to their original form.

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United States: Potential Increase to Debenture Limit for Levered Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs)?

By: TJ Bright, Matthew F. Phillips, and Kate E. Miller

Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs), which invest in qualifying small businesses in the United States, are eligible to receive Small Business Administration (SBA)-guaranteed debentures at favorable rates to finance their investment activities. Standard SBIC debentures typically have 10-year terms with interest payments due semi-annually, and a lump-sum payment of the principal at maturity.

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Europe: National Regulators Announce Digital Operational Resilience Act Reporting Windows

By: Shane Geraghty, Dr. Ulrike Elteste, and Ruth Hennessy

EU national supervisory authorities will collect the Register of Information (ROI) pursuant to the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) from in scope financial entities in April 2025, with the reference date set as 31 March 2025. ROIs are reports by in-scope EU financial entities on all contractual arrangements on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) services provided by ICT third-party service providers. The financial entity must differentiate between providers who are not critical and providers who are considered critical and important.

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Middle East: New Saudi Netting Regulation Creating a Buzz

By: Ron Feldman and Amjad Hussain

There was a buzz during the joint association conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the 19 February. A collaboration by ISDA, ISLA and ICMA, the industry associations representing parties that enter into transactions such as derivatives, securities lending and repurchase transactions, is indeed unusual.

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