SEC regulations

Firms are spending millions to comply with a controversial rule that is facing a legal challenge while state regulators push their own stringent regulations.

XY Planning Network and coalition of states are asking court to overturn advice regulation they say holds brokers to lesser standard.

Only a firm “actively swindling funds” would trigger an onsite visit, according to Peter Driscoll.

Senior officials are growing wary of how firms are trying to recoup revenue amid the "race to zero" commissions.

Guidance on new advice rules coming this month as OCIE and enforcement divisions struggle to expand oversight with limited resources.

"If rules are too broad or vague, we may end up circumscribing conduct that we never intended to capture,” Commissioner Allison Herren Lee said.

In an hour-long session, justices considered the agency's use of “disgorgement” to collect money from someone the commission sues in federal court.

A Supreme Court ruling could eviscerate one of the agency’s most potent weapons.

The commission “failed to enact a meaningful conduct rule,” state regulator William Galvin says.

The SEC examined approximately 2,180 RIAs in 2019.