SEC Chairman Gensler delivered a set of prepared remarks at the Ceres Investor Briefing on April 12, 2022, in which he defended the SEC's newly proposed rule concerning climate disclosures.
SEC released proposed amendments to Regulations S-K and S-X, designed to enhance and standardize the climate-related disclosures provided by public companies. Providing investors with consistent, comparable, reliable, and decision-useful information.
SEC has proposed new public company climate change disclosure requirements for both domestic companies and foreign private issuers, including the actual and potential impacts of climate change on companies as well as management and processes to address those impacts.
The SEC announced it settled charges in In re tZERO ATS, LLC, No. 93938. The Order details how the SEC fined blockchain-based trading platform tZERO ATS, LLC tZERO, an alternative trading systems ATS, for alleged violations of certain disclosures to the Commission.
the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rule amendments that would require an issuer, including a foreign private issuer and certain registered closed-end funds, to report any purchase made by or on behalf of the issuer.