The administration announced Thursday that it replaced the unit responsible for many of the SEC’s crypto registration suits with a new fraud-focused unit that will take a broader review of “cyber and emerging technologies.”

The Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit will prioritize fraud cases that leverage novel tech including crypto, artificial intelligence, machine learning and

Happy New Year to all and Welcome to Thompson Hine’s newest blog offered as a service to those in the investment management and broker-dealer communities.

What a better way to begin this blog then discussing the problems that arise for RIAs and BDs at this time of year. The first and most pressing for RIAs

complianceThe exam is finally over! If your advisory firm has been undergoing an SEC examination, you’ve probably been waiting a long time to utter those words. Well, time to get back to business, right? Not so fast. As our series on SEC examinations has detailed, this is a long process. And if your firm received

An onsite examination from the SEC can often feel like a surprise visit from your in-laws.  You wish you had more time to clean up before they arrived, you know they’re judging you the whole time they’re there, and you can’t wait for the moment you get to say goodbye.

And, after what seems like