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On October 16, the Division of Examinations (the Division or Exams) at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its 2024 examination priorities.

Privacy, both financial and personal, is a key component of life in a free society. Unlike in totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, individuals in free societies have a private sphere free of government involvement, surveillance, and control. The United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights, particularly the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments, together with structural federalism and separation of powers protections, is designed to further that end by protecting individual rights. The current ...

On March 30, 2022, the Division of Examinations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced its examination priorities for 2022.

On March 30, 2022, the Division of Examinations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Division” and “SEC,” respectively) announced its examination priorities for 2022. This...

Enhanced Focus on Climate-Related Risks FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington D.C., March 3, 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations today announced its 2021 examination priorities, including a greater focus on climate-related risks. The Division will also focus on conflicts of interest for brokers (Regulation Best Interest) and investment advisers (fiduciary duty), and attendant risks relating to FinTech in its initiatives and examinations. T...

SEC Division Of Examinations Announces 2021 Examination Priorities - Enhanced Focus On Climate-Related Risks Date 03/03/2021 The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations today announced its 2021 examination priorities, including a greater focus on climate-related risks. The Division will also focus on conflicts of interest for brokers (Regulation Best Interest) and investment advisers (fiduciary duty), and attendant risks relating to FinTech in its initiatives and ex...

To diagnose what happened on 9/11. it was like were preparing all these antidotes. so one of the things that was an assumption in the fall of 2001 was that we wanted to disrupt terrorist financing, and, therefore, we had to do all sorts of things, conscript businesses and financial institutions and charities and create watch lists and money laundering programs and know your customer and suspicious activity, reporting a whole wealth of things that really have businesses running and jumping throug...