On October 1, 2025, fee rates applicable to most securities transactions will be set at $138.10 per million dollars pursuant to the Order Making Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Adjustments to Registration Fee Rates. This represents a decrease from $153.10 per million dollars during the previous fiscal year. The new fee rate will be applied to the registration of securities under Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, the repurchase of securities under Section 13(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and proxy solicitations and specified tender offers under Section 14(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Continue reading "New SEC Filing Fee Rate Table Ready for Download" »

On September 17th, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to extend the date for investment advisers to comply with the February 2024 amendments to Form PF, the confidential reporting form used by certain private fund advisers. Continue reading "SEC, CFTC Extend Form PF Compliance Date" »

On September 16th, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff released proposed technical and other conforming enhancements for the 2026 SEC Reporting Taxonomy and the related release notes for review and comment. The proposed taxonomy improvements mainly include deprecations of elements because of infrequent use in practice or superseded guidance. Continue reading "FASB Publishes Technical and Other Conforming..." »

On September 12th, the SEC published draft updates to the upcoming 2026 XBRL taxonomies for public comment. The Draft 2026 Release Notes provide more information related to specific changes in the 2026 update for all XBRL taxonomies currently supported by the EDGAR system. Continue reading "SEC Publishes 2026 Draft Taxonomies for Review..." »

On September 8th, the SEC announced that it is amending rules to require electronic filing or submission of certain forms and other filings or submissions that are required to be filed with or submitted to the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations under the Exchange Act. Continue reading "SEC Amends Rules Regarding Electronic..." »

Version 6.2a of GoFiler will be released later today to facilitate the transition to EDGAR Next. This release contains all of the necessary functionality to submit filings to EDGAR Next and will automatically switch to EDGAR Next mode tonight at 10:01pm Eastern. Continue reading "GoFiler 6.2a Will Be Available for Download..." »

On September 15, 2025, enrollment in EDGAR Next becomes required in order to continue filing to the EDGAR system. Currently users can enroll their CIKs in EDGAR Next with only their current EDGAR information. Open enrollment in EDGAR Next ends on December 19, 2025. Continue reading "EDGAR Next Reminders" »

As the September 15th enrollment requirement nears, Novaworks is offering a series of free webinars to help filers and filing agents gear up for compliance with EDGAR Next, the next generation EDGAR system. Through this webinar series, our knowledgeable staff will thoroughly explore the changes and requirements that are coming with EDGAR Next. Continue reading "Novaworks Offers Webinar Series to Promote..." »

On July 22, staff in the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis issued an amended SPAC taxonomy that will be deployed as part of an upcoming EDGAR Release and will add the Over-allotment Option [Axis] to the dilution source link roles relating to SPAC dilution disclosure. The taxonomy also replaces the Security Class [Axis] (in certain roles relating to sponsor compensation) with Compensation Nature [Axis] (a superset of Security Class [Axis]). This allows filers to declare members needed for tagging non-security types of compensation. Continue reading "SEC Revises Special Purpose Acquisition Company..." »

On July 21, staff in the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis published findings related to an analysis of public float tagging errors. Form 10-K cover pages require the disclosure of the aggregate market value of both voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was most recently sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, such as public float, as of the last business day of a filer’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. Continue reading "SEC Releases Analysis of Public Float Tagging..." »

On July 14th, the SEC announced that the new filing fee Fedwire payment format is now available in the EDGAR system. The Federal Reserve Bank Fedwire Funds service adopted the ISO 20022 message format on July 14, 2025. The previous Fedwire Application Interface Manual (FAIM) format had a sunset date of July 11, 2025. The Fedwire payment instructions for filing fee registrants have been updated with the implementation of the new format. Continue reading "SEC Launches New Filing Fee Fedwire Payment..." »

On July 14th, the SEC announced that Form N-MFP Data Sets are now available for filers to download and that monthly updates will resume immediately. The monthly data sets previously were paused to update for Form N-MFP3 submissions. Form N-MFP is used for monthly reports of money market funds that report data pertaining to the fund and its portfolio holdings for the previous month. Continue reading "Form N-MFP Data Sets Now Available for..." »