Monday, July 31, 2023

Modernizing Beneficial Ownership Reporting

The Industry Waits for Final Action from the SEC

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

In early 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed several significant changes to Regulations 13D and 13G, which require certain persons to disclose their beneficial ownership of equity securities. These changes seek to improve the transparency and timeliness of beneficial ownership reporting and to make it easier for investors to access and understand this information. The Commission has not yet finalized the proposal, but the SEC's stated date for final action, April 2023, has passed, and the industry is watching the SEC's agenda closely, with final action overdue. 
 

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

The SEC Unveils its Agenda for 2023

A Busy Mix of New Business and Old

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

In its recently updated regulatory flexibility agenda, the Securities and Exchange Commission has set its priorities for 2023. A mix of old and new business, the Commission's 2023 plans include finalizing 29 existing proposals and placing 23 new proposals up for consideration. 

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Monday, November 28, 2022

SEC Beefs Up Proxy Voting Disclosure

Does meaningful proxy voting transparency reveal too much?

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

On November 2, 2022 the Securities and Exchange Commission finalized the first of its market data rule proposals. The amendments to form N-PX bring greater detail, consistency, and usability to the proxy voting information reported by mutual funds. These changes came in response to investors, who have said for nearly twenty years that they would benefit from more readily usable information and more details. But, new disclosures about proxy voting versus securities lending may have funds and their lending agents reexamining their policies and priorities. 

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Common Domain Model Paves the Way to the Future

"The common domain model is a natural starting place for DLT-based smart contracts"

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

The Common Domain Model (CDM), ISDA's ambitious securities lending standardization project, is a step closer to reality. And industry leaders already see opportunities for application. In a report jointly produced with Linklaters, ISDA outlined the project's progress since its launch in 2021 [1] and described how the CDM lays the foundation for distributed ledger (DLT)-based smart contracts to remake the securities lending landscape. 

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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Bringing Crypto Asset Activities Into the Regulatory Perimeter

Tech Innovation Meets Prudential Regulation

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

A collection of the globe's most significant securities trade associations[1] joined forces to file a comprehensive response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) second public consultation on the prudential treatment of banks' crypto-asset exposures. The September 30, 2022, letter voiced support for the design of the crypto-asset exposure framework proposed by  in its June 10, 2021, initial and follow-up June 30, 2022, consultations. However, the associations identified some elements of the proposal that they say "would  meaningfully  reduce banks' ability  to—and  in  some  cases  effectively  preclude banks  from—utilising the benefits of distributed ledger technology ("DLT") to perform certain  traditional  banking, financial  intermediation and  other  financial functions  more efficiently."

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