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Carl Ayers

Carl Ayers Carl Ayers, Publisher | 202-908-6194 | cayers@regcompliancewatch.com Carl has been the publisher of Regulatory Compliance Watch since 2008. He 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). He has worked at newspapers, in television news and in healthcare journalism. Carl hails from New Jersey, earned his master's degree from Northwestern University and enjoys playing guitar, working out and pursuing golf.
Bob Dylan once sang “something is happening here but you don't know what it is.”   That line comes to mind as CFTC Chairman J. ...
Last month, the SEC’s regional office in Fort Worth, Texas, held a free dial-in call for registrants to share what’s hot on exams.   “We ...
It is our privilege to share with you the 2018 examination priorities of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S. Securities ...
The newest list of OCIE exam priorities resembles past ones in that many of the topics match what the agency put out last year. But ...
All this story’s missing is the screenwriter.   The real-life characters include a failed politician turned skillful fraudster. He heads to prison next month. Add ...
Advocates holler that FinTech will drive the future of financial services. But first you have to define what it is.   The term “is vague ...
The client, a retired businessman in his 80s, had been with Morgan Stanley for decades before James Polese became his rep eight years ago. The ...
Merrill Lynch’s decision late last year to pay $26 million to settle allegations relating to its anti-money laundering program shows the problems large firms face ...
Mark Twain famously stated that there are three kinds of lies: “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That saying comes to mind with news that CFTC ...
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