Regulators and legislators certainly have been busy in 2019, leaving little breathing room for financial firms. More data privacy laws are on the horizon, particularly at the state level, with some very real implications for SEC-registered investment advisers. That was the key message from the “Regulatory Update on Privacy Regulations and Cybersecurity” panel during the … Continued

Cybersecurity regulations have landed ashore on the islands, and life is about to become anything but a beach for firms forced to comply with the Cayman Islands’ new Data Protection Law (DPL), slated to take effect September 30, 2019. With provisions largely mirroring the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), entities with a presence or … Continued

Maintaining tailored policies and procedures is a critical component of an adviser’s internal controls. Time and time again, we’ve heard regulators admonish the industry that off-the-shelf compliance manuals just don’t cut it. In today’s ever-shifting regulatory environment, does your compliance manual need a reboot? Although there has not been any significant rule making over the … Continued

After a number of firms struggled last year to get their marketing and information systems into compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), advisers to U.S. clients will soon be facing similar requirements on the home front. On the heels of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of … Continued

In what has become an ongoing race among states to have the toughest privacy regulation in the U.S., California has jumped to the front. On June 28, 2018, California’s legislature unanimously passed a privacy bill that was later signed by Governor Jerry Brown, which simultaneously strengthens privacy protections for California residents while possibly mooting an … Continued

GDPR is not a financial regulation, but has the potential to profoundly impact the operations of financial firms abroad and in the U.S.