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SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rules: Balancing Compliance Amid Legal Uncertainty

25 Mar 2024, 10:00 pm

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) completed a historic rulemaking on March 6, 2024 by adopting new rules requiring public companies to disclose certain climate-related information in registration statements and annual reports. [read post]

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Alternative Investment Lawyers

25 Mar 2024, 8:55 pm by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Our Skilled Alternative Investment Lawyers Are Investigating In an August 2022 Investor Bulletin, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy cautioned about the risks involving Regulation D private placements, which are exempt from the regulator’s registration requirements. [read post]

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Whistleblower Experts Call on DOJ to Follow Example of Dodd-Frank Programs

25 Mar 2024, 4:05 pm by Geoff Schweller

Whistleblower attorneys from the law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KKC) are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to model the whistleblower program it is developing on the hugely successful Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower programs administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). [read post]

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US SEC seeking $2 Billion from Ripple, Chief legal officer reports says Reuters

25 Mar 2024, 2:51 pm by jeffreynewmanadmin

Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking fines and penalties totaling $2 billion in its case against Ripple Labs over sales of the cryptocurrency XRP, the company’s chief legal officer said in a social media post. [read post]

Whistleblower Blog - https://www.jeffreynewmanlaw.com/blog/

MiCAR – ESMA final reports on first set of technical standards and third consultation package

25 Mar 2024, 12:01 pm by Simon Lovegrove (UK) and Anna Carrier (BE)

The draft technical standards are submitted to the European Commission (Commission) for adoption. [read post]

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SEC Adopts Long-Awaited Final Climate Disclosure Rules

25 Mar 2024, 10:41 am by Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

On March 6, 2024, by a party-line vote of 3-2, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules (entitled “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors”) requiring most public companies to disclose climate-related information in registration statements and annual reports filed with the SEC. [read post]

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Published in OJ – Delegated legislation on cross border notifications under AIFMD and UCITS Directive

25 Mar 2024, 10:01 am by Simon Lovegrove (UK)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/910 of 15 December 2023 laying down implementing technical standards (ITS) for the application of the UCITS Directive with regard to the form and content of the information to be notified in respect of the cross-border activities of UCITS, UCITS management companies, the exchange of information between competent authorities on cross-border notification letters, and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 584/2010. [read post]

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SEC Charges Investment Advisers with Making False and Misleading Statements About Their Use of AI

24 Mar 2024, 10:00 pm