Examinations

Six years after the SEC put out its first exam priorities’ list, the CFTC has followed suit with its inaugural release.   2019 Compliance Branch ...

For the first time, the CFTC is releasing exam priorities -- like the SEC has done for years. This document outlines the priorities for 2019.

If your firm was being examined or about to be when the government shutdown in late December, expect that OCIE will be reaching out soon ...

FINRA sees growing problems with reps’ discretionary trading, and the range of conduct under scrutiny is broad. The SRO identified discretionary account abuse in its ...

IA Watch has obtained a copy of an Excel file demonstrating the trade blotter format OCIE would like firms to submit during an SEC exam. ...

Predictions that OCIE would put out its 2019 exam priorities before 2018 ended proved true (IA Watch, Nov. 13, 2018), as did prognostications that they ...

OCIE encourages advisers to review their risks, practices, policies, and procedures regarding electronic messaging and to consider any improvements to their compliance programs that would ...

Here's a recap of the SEC's risk alert on e-communications

The goal for FY 2018 was for OCIE to examine 15% of IAs. Instead, examiners achieved examining 17% of the IA universe in the federal ...

As OCIE demonstrated recently with its cash solicitation risk alert (IA Watch, Oct. 31, 2018), advisers often fail to show they’ve done due diligence to ...