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Heather Ayers

Heather Ayers, Publisher | 202-908-6194 | heather.ayers@pei.group Heather has been the publisher of Regulatory Compliance Watch since 2008. She has won several national journalism awards, including for investigative reporting. In 2018, Ayers won two awards - a second place award for Best Spot News for a story reporting Form ADV developments ahead of the SEC (IA Watch, July 6, 2017), and a third place award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series on an adviser that initially fought SEC charges (IA Watch, July 27, 2017). She has worked at newspapers, in television news and in healthcare journalism. Heather hails from New Jersey, earned her master's degree from Northwestern University and enjoys playing guitar, working out and traveling.
The CCO was tested on how to respond to a firm breachโ€”not once, but twice
Washington DC, USA - January 13, 2018: US United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC entrance architecture modern building sign, logo, american flag, looking up sky, glass windows reflection
Over a 12-month period, the SECโ€™s Division of Examinations lost 19 examiners and 11 examiner supervisors as part of the agencyโ€™s job elimination moves
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Consider these steps for your incident response P&Ps
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Ideas to improve your incident response, a survey confirms how busy you are, details on SEC examiners being let go and much more
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Compliance problems including trading with an affiliate without a required exemptive order and failing to have a process for any revisions to, or deviations from, ...
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Hext Capital spot-tested its compliance with the net capital rule on a monthly basis rather than ensuring that it was in compliance at all times ...
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The Beatles were nobodies. Medicare was but a pipe dream. Astronaut John Glenn hadnโ€™t yet circled the globe from high above. The year was 1961, ...
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This could be a model for a revised books and records rule under the Advisers Act
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The Commission heard that it needs to speed up its whistleblower awards program and shouldn't move the program from the Enforcement Division
Hester Peirce, SEC Commissioner
"We welcome inquiries from market participants involved in designing and operating vaults or facilitating onchain lending"
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