Thursday, January 14, 2021
On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE,” since reorganized as a separate division of the SEC, i.e., the Division of Examinations [“DivEx”]) issued a Risk Alert entitled “Observations from Examinations of Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers: Large Trader Obligations.” My December 8, 2020, blog post, “Meeting Specified Standards: the SEC’s OCIE Assesses Compliance,” emphasizes the importance of compliance by regulated industry participants and notes DivEx reports from examinations of a number of recurring deficiencies.
In its December 16 Risk Alert, DivEx reports on similar inspections of broker-dealers and investment advisers and finds, if anything, even more frequent compliance issues concerning “Large Traders” as defined, with respect to recordkeeping, monitoring, and reporting relevant information using the Electronic B