The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has now closed its consultation on climate change disclosure rules and published the thousands of responses received, including heavyweight support for mandatory and digital approaches.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced its annual regulatory agenda, as included in the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions published by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
In May 2021, the Financial Transparency Act (FTA) was reintroduced to the 117th United States Congress. This bill, if passed, would direct all eight major US financial regulatory agencies to implement consistent data standards for the information they collect from filers under existing securities, commodities and banking laws.
Commissioner Allison Herren Lee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently spoke on ‘Living in a Material World: Myths and Misconceptions about “Materiality.”’ She addressed, among other topics, the important role of the investor in determining what is ‘material’ to disclosure, particularly around environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics.
On 20 May 2021 US President Joe Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk. It mandates greater disclosures to provide the information needed to understand climate risks and enable action to mitigate them.
What are the current gaps where more data is needed for good regulatory decisions? That’s the question explored by Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in an excellent keynote address to the 8th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation, titled ‘Mind the (Data) Gaps.’
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs, are generating a surge of restatements correcting past financial reports, following last month’s accounting clarification from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has published a proposed collection and comment request on the existing collection of information from Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, or NRSROs.
In remarks to the Institute of International Finance on 21 April, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen laid out the Treasury’s ‘whole-of-government’ approach to climate change, and emphasised the importance of disclosure.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently focused its attention on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. SPACs are cash-only investment vehicles that are formed and listed with a view to taking private companies public.
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