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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.
Regulators continue to caution the industry and investors on the potential pitfalls of initial coin offerings. SEC chairman Jay Clayton is the latest to weigh ...
Catherine Hetrick was hoping the new Form ADV, Part 1 would permit her to notice file for New Mexico and be done with it. Not ...
Many of the deficiencies examiners found related to fundamental compliance duties
The new CFTC chairman has taken another shot at how his predecessors oversaw the swaps markets.   Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo traveled to a conference ...
We have detailed many of the considerations firms face with new senior exploitation rules from FINRA (BD Watch, Oct. 18, 2017, BD Watch, Nov. 9, ...
Click here to open an Excel file that is a template displaying the data required to be reported under the EU's Packaged retail investment and insurance ...
Many signs point to the SEC upping their exams of IAs. Earlier this year, there was a prediction of a 25% increase in IA exams ...
OCIE has released its 6th risk alert this year. The latest one doesn’t give municipal advisors a good compliance grade.   In Observations from Municipal ...
Municipal Advisors should take steps to educate themselves regarding their compliance obligations. Exam staff frequently observed deficiencies in MA compliance with regulatory obligations regarding registration, ...
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