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The US Securities and Exchange Commission over the past few years has ramped up its enforcement against Wall Street firms’ use of forbidden messaging apps to do business

SEC says self-reporting key factor in reducing off-channel communication fines

A senior enforcement official said the regulator considers several factors in determining the size of penalties imposed on financial institutions over recordkeeping violations

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Hedge funds sue SEC over Treasury dealer rule

Managed Funds Association, Alternative Investment Management Association, and National Association of Private Fund Managers rack up latest legal claim

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SEC chair Gary Gensler says the new rule will give investors critical information

SEC approves weakened climate disclosure rule

Regulator drops a requirement fiercely contested by companies

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The SEC proposal is arguably the toughest measure the government has taken to check private equity since the emergence of modern buyout firms more than 40 years ago

Private fund lobbyists get set for high-stakes SEC court fight

Investors and business groups dispute regulator’s role and new disclosure mandates for the $26tn industry

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission says Coinbase lists tokens that qualify as securities

Judge questions SEC’s claim to regulate Coinbase

Crypto exchange is seeking dismissal of lawsuit at centre of agency’s oversight strategy

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Crypto bulls lost out in the aftermath of the SEC’s approval of bitcoin ETFs

Bitcoin bulls take $85m hit amid SEC’s ETF approval

The SEC has approved 11 spot bitcoin ETF applications

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'For now, the regulator doesn’t have any clear guidelines,' Hoskinson says

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson: SEC ‘doesn’t have answers’ on which cryptos are securities

The US regulator only classifies bitcoin and ether as decentralised cryptoassets, leaving others to face tougher rules

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SEC chair Gary Gensler

Big battles loom in SEC’s war on crypto

Agency’s push to regulate ‘Wild West’ market could stumble if it loses enforcement cases against Coinbase, Binance or Kraken

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The consent order by the Superior Court of New Jersey resolved a previous case alleging Credit Suisse violated antifraud rules in connection to acting as an underwriter to residential mortgage-backed securities

Credit Suisse to pay $10m after SEC alleges prohibited underwriting, advising

SEC says the bank acted as an underwriter and investment adviser to mutual funds after being prohibited from doing so by a New Jersey court

‘There are aspects of our financial infrastructure that are overdue a technological upgrade’ according to Clayton

Former SEC chair Jay Clayton: ‘Tokenisation has huge potential’

Blockchain could bring more efficient settlement, the ex-boss of the US regulator tells FN, but laws need to stay in place

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao thinks the crypto firm has a good chance against the SEC

Binance copped a $4bn plea but is still fighting the SEC

Prosecutors and the Treasury Department had more leverage to get a settlement with the cryptocurrency exchange

Regulators say Wells Fargo isn’t doing enough to police customer crimes

Bank also faces lawsuit claiming that it failed to detect alleged Ponzi scheme

Wealth management is a critical source of revenue for Morgan Stanley that helps offset droughts in deal making and trading

Fed probes Morgan Stanley’s international wealth management practices

At issue is how the bank vets foreigners and the origins of their money before taking them on as customers

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About 69% of Gen-Z respondents to a survey  last year said they preferred to communicate through messaging apps

Wall Street grapples with texting crackdown

The challenges of enforcing regulations against the use of off-channel communications have gone beyond encrypted apps such as WhatsApp, industry participants say

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HSBC blocks texts on staff mobiles

Bank is the latest to get ahead of regulatory probes into unauthorised messaging

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Compliance officers are still waiting for the FCA to follow the SEC and make sure they can audit communications should market abuse occur

FCA hints at future WhatsApp crackdown

Regulator has raised US drive in discussions with overseas colleagues

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