On July 17, 2023, the SEC announced that it updated SEC.gov stylesheets for Forms 4 and 5, which will be implemented with EDGAR Release 23.2.1. More specifically, the checkbox introduced in Release 23.1—to allow filers to determine whether the reported transaction was subject to a contract, instruction or written plan intended to meet the conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c)—has been moved from above Table 1 to the upper left corner of the stylesheet. There have been no new changes made to Forms 4 and 5. Continue reading "EDGAR Release 23.2.1" »

On July 17th, the SEC announced that its staff has issued its first semi-annual report to Congress concerning the public and internal use of machine-readable data for corporate disclosures. Continue reading "SEC Staff Issues First Semi-Annual Report to..." »

On July 12th, the SEC announced proposed rules that would amend and enhance Rule 15c3-3 (the rule that protects a customer’s cash and securities held at a carrying broker-dealer). The rules would require certain broker-dealers to increase the frequency with which they perform customer and broker-dealer reserve computations of the net cash they owe to customers and other broker-dealers (referred to as PAB account holders) from weekly to daily. Performing these computations with increased frequency would better correspond with the inflows, swings, and balances that broker-dealers currently are experiencing in the markets. Under Rule 15c3-3, carrying broker-dealers are required to have a special reserve bank account at a bank that must hold cash or qualified securities in an amount determined by a computation of the net cash owed to the carrying broker-dealer’s customers and PAB account holders. Continue reading "SEC Proposes Amendments to the Broker-Dealer..." »

On July 12th, the SEC announced that it is amending rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The amendments involve changes and updates to Form PF and Form N-CR, including changing the format of Form N-CR to a structured data language. Continue reading "SEC Approves Money Market Fund Reforms and..." »

In June 2023, the SEC published its first required semi-annual report to Congress regarding public and internal use of machine-readable data for corporate disclosures, in compliance with the Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022 (FDTA) signed into law on December 23, 2022. The FDTA requires the SEC to submit this report to both the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives every 180 days until December 23, 2029, when the provision requiring the report concludes. Continue reading "SEC Submits Report to Congress on Public and..." »

SEC staff will hold an open meeting via webcast on sec.gov on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The meeting is free and open for the public to attend. During the meeting, the Division of Investment Management will discuss Money Market Fund Reform; Form PF Reporting Requirements for Large Liquidity Fund Advisers; Technical Amendments to Form N-CSR and Form N-1A. {expires: 2023-07-13} Continue reading "SEC to Hold Open Meeting on Money Market Fund..." »

The SEC's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) has observed that filers are using tags associated with accrual items related to operating activities as presentation child elements on certain Forms 10-K and 10-Q and has offered guidance to more correctly tag these items. Continue reading "SEC Offers Guidance Regarding Correct Usage of..." »

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff has published GAAP Taxonomy Improvements for a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU), which addresses stakeholder concerns regarding comparability and complexity related to purchased financial assets. Continue reading "FASB Staff Issues Proposed GAAP Taxonomy..." »

On June 20, 2023, the SEC voted to reopen the comment period for its December 2021 proposal, Position Reporting of Large Security-Based Swap Positions, which provides the public an opportunity to comment on supplemental analysis and data added to the public comment file. The additional findings were compiled and released in a memorandum by the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA). The proposed rule would require expeditious reporting to the SEC of any large security-based swap (SBS) positions that exceed certain thresholds. The original comment period for the proposed rule closed on February 4, 2022. Continue reading "SEC to Reopen Comment Period for Position..." »

On June 20th, the SEC updated the EDGAR system to Release 23.2, and the system now supports multiple new XBRL taxonomies, including the 2023 version of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) taxonomy, the Resource Extraction Payments (RXP) taxonomy, and the Open-End Fund (OEF) taxonomy. These taxonomies are now also supported in the GoFiler Suite. Continue reading "SEC Issues June 2023 XBRL Taxonomies Update" »

On June 16th, the SEC announced that it will offer an EDGAR Filing Fee Beta that will allow filers and filing agents to test the technical and structured data components of the Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization final rule, which was adopted in October 2021. Continue reading "SEC Announces EDGAR BETA Testing for Filing Fee..." »

The SEC will be closed Monday, June 19th in observance of Freedom Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of June 19th will be due the following business day. The FERC will also be closed in observation of Freedom Day. eForms will accept filings submitted on June 19th.

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The SEC has announced that a virtual Investor Advisory Committee meeting will take place on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The public may attend this free event, which will be presented live via webcast at sec.gov. {expires: 2023-06-23} Continue reading "SEC Staff to Hold Investor Advisory Committee..." »

The SEC has announced that it is adopting rule amendments pursuant to Regulation M, under which the SEC is required to replace references to credit ratings with alternative standards of creditworthiness. Regulation M of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act) is a set of rules designed to protect the pricing integrity of the securities trading markets by prohibiting issuers, distribution participants, selling security holders, and any of their affiliated purchasers from engaging in activities that could artificially influence the market for an offered security. Continue reading "SEC Approves Amendments to Remove References to..." »

On June 7th, the SEC announced that it is adopting new Rule 9j-1, which is designed to prevent fraud, manipulation, and deception related to executing or attempting to execute any transaction (including purchasing or selling, inducing or attempting to induce the purchase or sale) in a security-based swap (SBS). The rule takes into consideration the basic features of an SBS and the broad definitions of “purchase” and “sale” under the Exchange Act as they relate to SBSs. Continue reading "SEC Approves Rules to Prevent Fraud Related to..." »